Research Guides @ Fordham: Biological Sciences: Botany

Online Botany Collections, Libraries, and Databases

Photo Libraries

CalPhotos: Plants
Over 372,300 images of plants from the University of California at Berkeley.

Historic and Miscellaneous Collections

American Horticultural Society: Climate Maps
A resource for climate zone maps, giving researchers information on humidity, rainfall, temperature, and hardiness.
New York Botanical Garden Digital Library
The NYBG is the largest collection of botanical and horticultural literature in the Western Hemisphere. Also located near Fordham's Rose Hill campus for easy physical access.
PlantED Digital Library
From the Botanical Society of America, includes resources on botanical taxonomy, effects of introducing species to non-indigenous environments, and other materials related to biodiversity, evolution, and ecology.
USDA National Agricultural Library Digital Collections
The digital collections of the United States Department of Agriculture's National Agricultural Library.

Taxonomic Databases

Brooklyn Botanical Garden Plant Records
Brooklyn Botanical Garden's Plant Information Records System houses taxonomic information on plants in their garden and much more information based on plants' arrival times, flowering statuses, how they were received, etc.
Flora of North America (FNA)
A comprehensive database containing names, taxonomic relationships, continent-wide distributions, and morphological characteristics of all plants native and naturalized in North America (north of Mexico).
National Museum of Natural History Department of Botany Collections
From the Smithsonian Institution, over 4.2 million specimen records (including over 115,000 type specimens with images) are currently available in this online catalog.
New York Metropolitan Flora Project
The NYMF is a multi-year effort from the Brooklyn Botanical Garden to document the flora in all counties with a 50-mile radius of New York City.
USDA PLANTS Database
From the Natural Resources Conservation Service, the PLANTS Database provides standardized information (attributes, names, taxonomy, and symbols) about vascular plants, mosses, liverworts, hornworts, and lichens of the U.S. and its territories.

Plant Names by Roger Spencer; Rob Cross
[Online Resource]
Clayton, Victoria : CSIRO Publishing, 2020
The Encyclopedia of Psychoactive Plants by Christian Rätsch; Albert Hofmann (Foreword by)
Call Number: [RH Reference Area] QK99.A1 R2813 2005
Rochester, Vt. : Park Street Press, 2005
A Guide to Native Plants of the New York City Region by Margaret B. Gargiullo
[Online Resource]
New Brunswick, N.J. : Rivergate Books, 2007
Plants of the World: An Illustrated Encyclopedia of Vascular Plants by Maarten J. M. Christenhusz
Call Number: [RH Reference Area] QK7 .C47 2017
Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2017

Journal of Experimental Botany
Peer Reviewed
Years available: 1950 - 6 years ago
Annals of Botany
Peer Reviewed
Years available: 1887 - Present
American Journal of Botany
Peer Reviewed
Years available: 1914 - Present
Environmental and Experimental Botany
Peer Reviewed
Years available: 1995 - 2014
Botany
Peer Reviewed
Years available: 1998 - Present

Library of Congress Call Numbers for Botany topics:

QK1-989: Botany

QK1-474.5 General

QK91-97 Classification

QK101-474 Geographical Distribution, Phytogeography

QK474-495 Spermatophyta, Phanerogams

QK474-493 Trees and Shrubs

QK494-494.5 Gynosperms

QK495 Angiosperms

QK504-638 Crytogams

QK509-519.5 Local

QK520-532 Pteridophyta (Ferns, etc.)

QK532.4-563.7 Bryophyta, Bryology

QK564-580.5 Algae, Algology

QK580.7-597.5 Lichens

QK600-638 Fungi

QK640-707 Plant Anatomy

QK710-899 Plant Physiology

QK746-791 Chemical Agents Affecting Plants

QK861-899 Phytochemistry

QK900-989 Plant Ecology

QK930-938 Physiographic Regions

QK980-989 Evolution of Plants (General)

SB1-1110: Plant Culture

Plant Form by Adrian D. Bell; Alan Bryan (Illustrator)
Call Number: [RH Stacks] QK641 .B39 2008
Portland, Or. : Timber Press, 2008
Plant Systematics by Michael G. Simpson
[Online Resource]
Amsterdam ; Boston : Elsevier/Academic Press, 2006
Anatomy of Flowering Plants by Paula J. Rudall
[Online Resource]
Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2007