Good lists of plants?

Question

Cactuses, flowers, shrubs and bushes, trees, herbs, you name it, I want a good list of websites showing lots and lots of plants.

(I'm going to learn all their Latin names :P)

Answer 1

I wish you the best of luck with your task: perhaps this will come as a surprise to you, but there are around a quarter of a million flowering plant species alone! Add to that gymnosperms, ferns, mosses, etc. and you'll be at it for quite a while... ;)

Answer 2

http://www.ipni.org/

The International Plant Names Index (IPNI) is a database of the names and associated basic bibliographical details of all seed plants, ferns and fern allies. IPNI is a collaborative product between The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, The Harvard University Herbaria, and the Australian National Herbarium

Worldwide Botanical Knowledge Base

http://wwbota.free.fr/

USDA & university Floras and Field Guides

http://herbarium.biology.colostate.edu/

Plants For A Future Database, Edible, Medicinal, & Useful

http://www.pfaf.org/index.html

http://www.gfmer.ch/TMCAM/Atlas_medicina...

The PLANT answer Machine, searches all the files in Aggie Horticulture, the Texas Plant Disease Handbook, and the TAMU Entomology web site simultaneously.

http://aggie-horticulture.tamu.edu/ihoun...

Ornamental plants 3.0

http://web1.msue.msu.edu/imp/modzz/maste...

The Plant PressTranslates between botanical and common names.

http://www.plantpress.com/dictionary.htm...

Tropical Database

http://www.rain-tree.com/plistbot.htm

Nursery plant data base

http://www.crescentbloom.com/plants/list

Botanical Pronounciations, References, and Images

http://roundrobin2001.0catch.com/audio.h...

BOTANICALS: Cross Reference of Latin Binomials and American Common Names

http://www.ctfa.org/Content/NavigationMe...

Dave’s Garden a wiki for gardens

http://davesgarden.com/pf/

Fairly limited number of plants but very pretty pictures

http://www.biochem.szote.u-szeged.hu/ast...

The Dictionary of Old-English-Plant Names

http://oldenglish-plantnames.uni-graz.at...

UBC Botanicalhttp://www.ubcbotanicalgarden.org/potd/

Iris species

http://www.badbear.com/signa/signa.pl?Se...

Australian image libraryhttp://www.anbg.gov.au/anbg/photo-collec...

20.500 digital botanical pictures in a scientific database

http://www.lavendelfoto.com/en/

These are all sites that offer different data bases and search capabilities so you will find some more useful than others. Also the phylogenic sites are useful in understanding relationships, especially the first three.

http://tolweb.org/tree/phylogeny.html

http://zipcodezoo.com/

http://waynesword.palomar.edu/index.htm

http://www.geocities.com/RainForest/6243...