Directory of Plants and Trees Resources

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• Biology of Plants

  http://www.mbgnet.net/bioplants/
  Provides an introduction to plants. Topics include how they grow, individual plant parts, making food, pollination, seed dispersal, adaptations, and how they help the environment.

• Brockman Memorial Tree Tour

  http://www.cfr.washington.edu/BrockmanTreeTour/
  Eighty different species are described and illustrated as you take a virtual walk around the University of Washington. Common and Latin names are given.

• Celebrating Wildflowers: Texas Hill Country Coloring Book

  http://www.nps.gov/plants/color/txhill/
  Provides accurate drawings of 63 wildflowers. Flowers listed by both common name and scientific name. Each drawing includes coloring guide.

• Dr. Arbor Talks Trees

  http://extension.illinois.edu/trees3/02.html
  Learn how the roots, trunk, leaves, twigs, and buds are put together. Tells how to identify trees and what happens inside the tree.

• EnchantedLearning: Plant Glossary

  http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/plants/glossary/index.shtml
  Contains a wide variety of terms associated with botany and paleobotany (which is the study of plant fossils, or ancient plants).

• Exploring the Secret Life of Trees

  http://extension.illinois.edu/trees2/
  Tells what different parts do and why they are important to the health of the tree.

• Flowers, Plants and Fungi

  http://images.kew.org/flowers/photo/7202.html
  Find photo images of flowers. From the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.

• Hindmarsh Correa (Correa Calycina)

  http://www.environment.gov.au/biodiversity/threatened/publications/tsd05hindmarsh-correa.html
  Includes a fact sheet on this tall, branching shrub, and what is being done to help it.

• Miami University: Trees

  http://www.units.miamioh.edu/dragonfly/trees/trees.shtml
  Full of interactive adventures to explain why trees have different shapes, how squirrels help oak trees to survive, how trees spread their seeds, and how trees protect their space.

• Natural Products Initiative

  http://fieldmuseum.org/explore/department/botany/economic/collections
  Tells what economic botany is, and explains the collections at the museum.

• Northern Trees

  http://lyra.ifas.ufl.edu/NorthernTrees/
  Provides glossary of all trees for students and researchers, also guid through the process of tree selection.

• Photosynthesis, Energy, and Life

  http://www.ftexploring.com/photosyn/photosynth.html
  An introduction to photosynthesis and other energy sources that move through nature.

• Plants & Fungi From Kew Gardens

  http://www.kew.org/plants-fungi/plants-fungi-A-Z/index.htm
  Search for profiles of plants from A-Z. With photos.

• Plants and Flowers

  http://www.primarygames.com/science/flowers/flowers.htm
  Includes games, coloring pages, facts, and stationery.

• Plants-In-Motion

  http://plantsinmotion.bio.indiana.edu/plantmotion/starthere.html
  Contains short movie clips that show movements of plants and flowers over an extended period of time. Also includes learning projects and plant art. Apple QuickTime is required to view the movie clips.

• Purdue University: Horticulture

  http://www.hort.purdue.edu/ext/senior/flowers/flowers.htm
  Provides an alphabetical list of plants, flowers, and ornamentals. Also includes pictures.

• Real Trees 4 Kids

  http://www.realtrees4kids.org/
  Fun facts, photographs, and information about tree types, classification, life cycles, habitat, stems, rings, and harvesting operations.

• Science and Plants for Schools

  http://www.saps.org.uk/
  Provides descriptions and photographs of trees and shrubs in Great Britain and Ireland. Includes an image database.

• Talk About Trees

  http://www.talkabouttrees.org/
  Non-profit program dedicated to educating children about the responsible management and use of California's most renewable resource. Includes resources for students and teachers, including lessons, games, and other resources.

• The Amazing Story of Kudzu

  http://maxshores.com/the-amazing-story-of-kudzu/
  History, varied uses for kudzu plants, links and references.

• The Great Plant Escape

  http://extension.illinois.edu/gpe/
  Help Detective LePlant and his partners Bud and Sprout unlock the amazing mysteries of plant life.

• The Mysterious Venus Flytrap

  http://www.botany.org/bsa/misc/carn.html
  Comprehensive information about this plant that eats meat and also includes includes information on how to grow one.

• The Noble Foundation: Plants Image Gallery

  http://www.noble.org/apps/plantimagegallery/index.aspx
  An identification resource that covers plants, grasses, and trees. Information is sorted by common name, scientific name, and by the “family” to which it belongs.

• Trees are Terrific

  http://extension.illinois.edu/trees1/
  Travel with Pierre as you learn all about how trees are important to us.

• United States Department of Agriculture: Plants

  http://www.plants.usda.gov/
  Provides information on plants, mosses, liverworts, hornworts, and lichens of the United States and its territories. Users can search by name, geographic distribution, or other characteristics.

• USDA Plants Database

  http://plants.usda.gov/java/
  Provides standardized information about the vascular plants, mosses, liverworts, hornworts, and lichens of the U.S. and its territories.

• Wikipedia: Botany

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Botany
  Covers a wide range of subjects that study plants, algae, and fungi. Topics include the importance of botany, etymology, history, and botanists.

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