Botany: Native Plants

Web site provides searchable access to the Cook Islands Biodiversity Database. The database includes information on 4,200 native and introduced species. It includes terrestrial, freshwater, and marine species. Site also includes access to natural heritage articles, Maori dictionary, and a searchable journal article database. Hosted by the Bishop Museum.

From the the Smithsonian Institution, this site provides searchable access to a checklist of Hawaiian vascular plants as well as a searchable image database. It also contains a pdf file of the supplement to the Manual of the Flowering Plants of Hawaii which details taxonomic changes since the publication of the Manual. There is also a link to the Flora of the Marquesas.

From the Smithsonian Institution, this site provides searchable access to a checklist of Marquesan vascular plants as well as a searchable image database. There is also a link to the Flora of the Hawaiian Islands.

This Bishop Museum site includes taxonomy and type specimen databases in botany covering native plants, algae and cultivated plants.

Searchable and browseable Web site for propagation information on over 70 endemic and indigenous plants.

Site includes a photo gallery of common plants found on Moorea, including description information and ethnobotanical uses. Also checklists of ferns and fern allies and marine vascular plants and algae. Includes bibliography.

From the Center for Plant Conservation; browse a list or search the database for profiles of endangered plants; includes references.

The Native Plant Network is devoted to the sharing of information on how to propagate native plants of North America (Canada, Mexico, and US). It includes Hawaii and other Pacific Islands.

The goal of Native Plants Hawaii (NPH) is to create and establish a single, comprehensive and searchable online knowledgebase of endemic and indigenous plants of Hawaii. NPH seeks to connect local nurseries to landscape architects and home growers to promote the purchase, use and understanding of local native plants.

This site provides access to information on plant taxa that occur in New Zealand. The site combines data from the New Zealand Plant Names Database and the Allan Herbarium Specimen database – providing access to information on the scientific and vernacular names, distribution and collection data, keys, descriptions and images. It currently includes the data for the seed plants, mosses, liverworts, lichens and freshwater algae.

Carlquist discusses his work and provides context for his research. He includes pdf files of many of his publications including some on his work on Hawaiian native plants.

This Web site is based on the book Plants and Environments of the Marshall Islands by Dr. Mark Merlin (1994). Provides information based on vegetation zone and for specific plants by scientific and Marshallese names.

Information for students, researchers, development workers, community leaders, government and non-government agencies and others working on plant identification, conservation and diversity of plants in Papua New Guinea; includes herbarium plant collection database, interactive identification guide to common trees of PNG, information about PNG plant collectors, names of vascular plants of PNG, and pdf files of Handbooks of the Flora of Papua New Guinea. This is a collaborative project between the Papua New Guinea National Herbarium (LAE) and the National Herbarium of New South Wales (NSW).