Information to Expand Your
Botanical Knowledge
Botanical Websites of Texas, Southwest and Great Plains Interest
These scholarly websites provide a range of interesting information about wildflowers on topics ranging from toxins to home gardens.
Wildflowers have not learned to recognize state boundaries, or even national borders, and some are quite accomplished travelers. You may find “Texas wildflowers” in places as far away as California or Canada!
Chihuahuan Desert Research Institute
https://cdri.org/index.html
Economically Important Plants. University Of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
http://www.botgard.ucla.edu/html/botanytextbooks/economicbotany/index.html
Flowers in Bloom, from Texas A&M University
http://aggie-horticulture.tamu.edu/wildseed/
Image Archive of Central Texas Plants, from University of Texas
http://www.sbs.utexas.edu/bio406d/PlantPics_archive.htm
Intriguing World of Weeds, from the Weed Science Society of America
http://www.wssa.net/Weeds/ID/WorldOfWeeds.htm
Kansas Wildflowers and Grasses
http://www.kswildflower.org/index.php
Medicinal Crops of Manitoba, Manitoba Agriculture, Food and Rural Initiatives
http://www.manitoba.ca/agriculture/crops/medicinal/index.html
Native Prairies Association of Texas
http://www.texasprairie.org/
Newcrop: New and Specialty Crop Profiles
http://www.hort.purdue.edu/newcrop/default.html
Sibley Nature Center
http://www.sibleynaturecenter.org/index.html
Jerry Parsons and his TAMU colleagues tell how the Texas bluebonnet became a pre-eminent element in Texas culture, and explain how to grow them in your yard! Texas Bluebonnets -- Texas Pride
The Garden Show, hosted by Dr. Jerry Parsons, TAMU Cooperative Extension Service
http://aggie-horticulture.tamu.edu/plantanswers/gardenshow/index.html
Toxic Agents in Plants. Poison Plants Information Database. Department of Animal Science. Cornell University
http://www.ansci.cornell.edu/plants/index.html
Toxic Plants of Texas, TAMU AgriLife Extention
http://essmextension.tamu.edu/plants/toxics/
USDA ARS Poisonous Plant Research Laboratory
http://www.ars.usda.gov/Main/docs.htm?docid=3496
Wayne’s Word - An On-Line Textbook of Natural History, from Palomar College
http://waynesword.palomar.edu/index.htm
Western Herbal Medicine
http://www.tcbmed.com/publications/plant_profiles/plant_profiles.html
