Native American Herbal, Plant Knowledge

Many plant images, maintained by Southwest School of Botannical Medecine

(Michael Moore). Major plant photos, engravings, drawings imagebase

gateway. More than a thousand quality plant pix accessible by botanic,

common name and (some) by Spanish-name indexes.

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University of.Wisconsin (Madison) botany gopher--Here's where the majority

of my plant pix come from. There's a couple years of botany classwork ID

pix, field trip, and most of all, extensive visual class lectures, organized by

habitats, by Dr. Virginia Kline (of the Madison Arboretum). Fantastic

botannical pix resource for the Great Lakes region. Dr. Kline visited and

photographed prairies, too. You could practically get yourself a degree in

botany just browsing these pix. They are IDed mostly by species name, but

sometimes by common names, so you need a book source to look up plant

names. To get the plant you're interested in, prepare to spend a lot of time

exploring.

Web links to UW Botany Gopher provides somewhat more descriptions

of what the various UW gopher subdirectories hold in the wsay of

images

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Dr. Kline's teaching collection of images Many subdirectories which

are named by environmentla areas where the wild plants imaged grow

-- from different types of forests to prairies to wetlands to beach areas.

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Fungi image collection and info Gateway to collections by Tom Volk (La

Crosse botanist). contains lifecycle of morels, the most delicious mushroom in

the world.

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Texas A&M U Botany Herbarium Image Listing--In a way this is a better

organized plant image gallery, but the organization is for professionals. You

need to know the family, not just the genus-species botannical name of the

plant whose pic you're seeking here. You can browse this listing and perhaps

spot its botannical name out of the hundreds grouped by the big families.

Elsewhere on this TAMU herbarium site are access to threatened plants info,

a huge technical plant info database (all text), and some Texas plant info that

includes regional maps of their ranges.

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Hopkins Technology, Multimedia Publishers:Herbalist CDROM, PC, Mac

--Over 100 plants, pix, multimedia. By British herbal physician and Dr. Jim

Duke of USDA. Check table of contents, sample definitions, reviews, even

order it ($49.95). But you can get it $15 cheaper from Edutainment's on-line

CDROM general catalog. Jump right into their nifty Herbalist page.

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Books on-line from US Government via Hopkins Technology--Well,

pamphlets, really on health and nutrition written at a level most kids will

comprehend.

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Botany Related URLs: All Links--a 196K page, takes some time to load, but

then there's a menu for visiting links. For serious plant research, using all

available InterNet botany sites. Download this page, load it locally (with

OPEN FILE) and do your InterNet plant sites searching that way.

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