Links
Web pages I've found useful, interesting, or
entertaining, organized by topic.
Botany:
US in general:
Flora of North America
Keys, species descriptions, ranges, etc., for all plants of the continental US and
Canada. Or at least, once it's finished. So far, 9 of 26 volumes are completed and
available online, with several more soon to be published.
USDA PLANTS Database
A database of plants of the US with distribution information, some synonymy listings, and
images of some taxa.
Midwest and Northeast:
Missouriplants.com
Pictures and information about 1000 or so plants found in Missouri. An excellent web
site.
Connecticut Botanical
Society
Pictures and information about many of Connecticut's plants, as well as various bits of
information about the society.
Wisflora
A web page for the flora of Wisconsin, presented by the Wisconsin State Herbarium.
Southwest:
SW Colorado
Wildflowers
Images and information about the flora of southwestern Colorado.
Wildflowers of
Tucson
The name says it all.
Southern California
Wildflowers
Tempting as it is to exclude southern California from the
southwest on cultural grounds, I have to include it on botanical grounds.
INRAM Biodiversity
A page that lets you search the New Mexican holdings of all herbaria located
in New Mexico.
UT Flora of Texas
Project
Allows you to search the Texan holdings of herbaria located in Texas.
SEINet:
Plantae
Allows you to search all holdings of the herbaria located in Arizona.
Forums I Read:
Outdoor Eyes
General outdoor photography forums.
fieldherpers.com
Forums devoted to field herping. Created as a reaction to poor moderation at
kingsnake.com.
ChihuahuanDesert.com
Has forums dedicated to field herping and botany in the Chihuahuan Desert. Requires
membership.
GardenWeb Forums
Has obnoxious advertising and a few too many gardeners are of the ditzy variety, but there's
still good stuff in there.
Family Pages:
The Thinking Meat
Project
A web site run by my mother, Mary Hrovat, concerned with the conflict between
consciousness and mortality.
galexander.org
The home page of my brother, Greg Alexander, a programmer with odd opinions and baffling
hobbies.
Misc:
Homestarrunner.com
Home of the web's greatest animated humor.
Topozone.com
Searchable online topographic maps.
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