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» About.com: Poisonous Plants for Cats, Dogs, Humans - Article listing a number of poisonous plants, with links to further information about those plants.




» All America Selections Winners - Showcases new varieties of flowers, vegetables, and plants for garden performance.




» BackyardGardener.com: Garden Guides on Plants - Starting point for information on (types of) plants, with summary information for many species and varieties.




» Cal's Plant of the Week - Features a new plant every week, with photo, description, and cultural information. Previously featured plants can be selected by botanical or common name. Focus is on plants for greenhouse culture.




» Chicago Botanic Garden: Ornamental Plant Development - Provides access to plant evaluation reports from the Botanic Garden's plant trials. Each report, in PDF format, provides several pages of description and photos.




» Dave's Garden: PlantFiles - Database with over 80,000 plants with cultivation information and pictures supplied by member gardeners.




» DenverPlants.com - This resource for gardeners in the Denver metro area includes a sizeable database of plants with photos and cultural information.




» Desert-Tropicals.com - Features searchable database of thousands of plants, with basic information and often photos. Includes many succulents, herbs, and tropical fruit trees.




» Dinosaur Garden Plants - Describes plants that lived during the age of the dinosaurs, with brief information, lists, and links to other resources for plants of the mesozoic era.




» Echo: Fruiting Trees, Shrubs, and Herbaceous Plants - Features cultural information, uses, handling tips, and links for an extensive list of fruits and vegetables.




» The Families of Flowering Plants - Offers descriptions, illustrations, and identification retrieval.




» Findmeplants.co.uk - Garden plant finder. Searchable by garden conditions and design requirements such as flower color, size and growth habit. Search results include plant photo and summary information.




» Floridata - Features hundreds of plant portraits, each illustrated with several photos, documenting the garden uses and cultural requirements of each species or cultivar.




» Flowers of India - Collection of hundreds of plant photos with brief descriptions. Each of the plants grows in India, but both natives and non-natives are featured.




» Foliage Plants Database - Searchable database with basic information and some photographs of plants grown primarily for their foliage. Japanese and English.




» Fruits and Vegetables - Includes set of fact sheets and links from the University of Florida.




» The Garden of Paghat the Ratgirl - Pacific Northwest gardener presents essays for hundreds of species growing in her garden, with personal notes, history, cultural information, and photos for each.




» Gardenline - Guide to growing and caring for houseplants, vegetables, trees and shrubs. Also features common pests and a miscellaneous section. From the University of Saskatchewan Extension.




» Gardenweb: Name That Plant - Forum that allows users to upload images of plants that they are trying to identify.




» Garten.cz - Features a searchable, multilingual garden plant encyclopedia, with a summary of cultural and botanical information and in many cases photos.




» Horticopia On-line Plant Information - Includes directory of plants, categorized by genus, includes summary cultural information and small photograph for each plant.




» HortiPlex - Horticultural database with over 100,000 species and cultivars. Comments, ratings, and photos for many varieties supplied by members of the Gardenweb community.




» Illinois' Best Plants - Chicago Botanic Garden provides a database of recommended plants for Illinois gardens, from perennials to trees, with photos and information on their culture and use.




» New Jersey Weed Gallery - Database of weeds, accessible by common and botanical names and by a thumbnail gallery. Summary information and photos are provided for each weed.




» Pacific Northwest Plants - Database on plant identification, culture and usage for the U.S. Northwest, including native and introduced species and their major varieties and cultivars.




» Perennials, Annuals and Bulbs - November Tips - Instructions on planting in the fall, including some specific intstructions about tulips. From the Virginia Coooperative Extension.




» PlantBuzz - Gardener Mark McDonough presents horticultural musings and illustrated plant studies, with particular emphasis on alliums and other bulbs for rock gardens.




» Plants For A Future - Resource centre for rare and unusual plants, particularly those which have edible, medicinal or other uses. Offers a plant database, and various articles on gardening, perennials, and habitats.




» Plants National Database - Online USDA database of botanical information, images, and links on plants in the USA, including crops and invasives. Search by name, geographic distribution, or other characteristics.




» Plants Toxic to Animals - Resources about toxic plants from the Veterinary Medicine Library.




» PlantZAfrica - Includes information about plants native to southern Africa, including hundreds of alphabetically arranged plant portraits, by the National Botanical Institute of South Africa.




» Shady Character - Mark shares photos and descriptions with personal experiences growing a large number of shade plants, both perennials and woody specimens.




» SunnyGardens.com - Plant encyclopedia featuring photos and short descriptions of annuals, perennials, shrubs, and trees.




» Tiscali Gardening - A South African flower, plant and gardening portal with searchable plant database, photographs and information.




» Translat - Translation program for botanical latin.




» Virtual Plant Tags - Database of detailed descriptions and growing tips for thousands of plants, including many not commonly grown. Profiles include cultural information, assessment of landscape value, and photos for most.




» WeedAlert.com - Offers a weed listing for the United States regions, primarily weeds occurring in lawns.