Lepidoptera and some other life forms

Started as a project on Moths and Butterflies. Now encompasses plants as well, mainly just scientific and common name (English and Finnish), but a good number of pics as well. Getting on for 7000 plants.

Plant Name Database

Allows conversion of names between Finnish, Swedish, English, German, French and Latin

Botanical.com

Lists 800+ types of herbs taken from a 1931 Herbal book.

Dictionary of Botanical Epithets

Describing how some of the Latin names of plants were derived.

UI Plants

Woody ornimentals database has good details of identification, cultivation and lots of photos.

International Plant Name

Index a very large database which combines several of the standard references for botanical names. Could become a standard source.

The Plant Finder

By the Royal Horticultural Society: the source for finding where to get plants from in the UK

Silvics of North America

Silvics of North America is a detailed guide to about 200 different trees which grom in the US. Contains details of the growing range, life history, ecology. One of the most coprehensive sources around.

Find Wildflowers Online

Allows searchs by the botanical description of the plant i.e. thetype of flower etc. Could be a very useful resource.

The Plants Database

A community driven database with 14,000+ images by many authors. Part of Dave's Garden.

Horticopia

4000 plants with botanical and common names as well as a good range of pictures (with their logo across the middle!).

The Dictionary of Common Names

From the Plant Press, has a good range of common names from many countries.

Den Virtuella Floran

Database in Swedish good for Swedish/Norwegan/Finnish/German names

The Flora of North America

A massive project to collect info on approximately 20,000 species of vascular plants and bryophytes of North America. With distribution maps, images, and some use info

World Species List

A collection of lists about the species (plants, animals & in betweens) for lots of places round the world. They have really a rather large amount of links (300K). They were kind enough to put us as the pick of the month for Jan '98. And have about 200 links to our site! Now I know why the hits have gone up. It lists such gems as the World Conservation Monitoring Centre, red list of Threatened Plants