A flowering branch of Sphaeralcea emoryi (Malvaceae, Malvales, Rosanae) is pictured above. Sphaeralceas are common wildflowers of southwestern North America (see the link to the Malvaceae web site below).

Amborella Dot Org:
Produced by Sangtae Kim and colleagues this web site focuses on the basic biology, genomics, and phylogenetic relationships of Amborella (Amborellaceae), a basal angiosperm ... LINK

American Society of Plant Taxonomists Links Page:
The American Society of Plant Taxonomists maintains this links page and database portal for plant systematists and Cenozoic paleobotanists ... LINK

Arboretum de Villardebelle:
What a great site to discover the biology and diversity of gymnosperms, among others! The Arboretum de Villardebelle is located in southwestern France ... LINK

Botanical Society of America's Carnivorous Plant Pages:
Students and the web-browsing public will enjoy this visit to insect Hell, sponsored by the Botanical Society of America that focuses on insect-eating plants. Learn how antagonism can follow a different path ... LINK

Botanical Society of America's On-line Learning Community of Botany Teachers and Researchers:
Developed and supported by The Botanical Society of America, this online learning resource connects students, teachers, and plant scientists across the United States of America. American students, from middle school to college level, engage in hands-on inquiry projects and share their experiences with peers and scientist mentors. Compiled by David Spooner, the web site is a good learning resource with several links to other url's ... LINK

Conifer Web Site:
Developed by C. L. Earle in 1997, the site contains a comprehensive database on gymnosperms ... LINK

Cosmoss Dot Org:
The Physcomitrella bioinformatics and plant transcriptional factor (PlanTAFDB) data bases, and BLAST tool kits are accessible from the Physcomitrella patens resource web site ... LINK

Fairchild Tropical Botanical Garden:
The garden's mission is to "save tropical plant diversity by exploring, explaining and conserving the world of tropical plants; fundamental to this task is inspiring a greater knowledge and love for plants and gardening so that all can enjoy the beauty and bounty of the tropical world." This web site is a good resource for palms and Neotropical botany with an attractive "flash" graphic on its home page ... LINK

Floral Genome Project:
This site is an excellent learning tool for molecular plant systematists and Cenozoic paleobotanists which was funded by a grant from the United States National Science Foundation ... LINK

Grassius Dot Org:
This is the official web site of developmental regulation for agrostologists who study cis-regulatory modules (elements) in grasses (Poaceae) ... LINK

Harvard University Herbaria:
Harvard University Herbaria Home Pages which contain an extensive nomenclatural database including the International Plant Names Index ... LINK

Harvard University Internet Directory for Botany:
Maintained by Anthony R. Brach at Harvard, this comprehensive directory leads to more than 100 Internet sites having to do with botany ... LINK

J. D. Hooker Web Site:
This botanical web site is devoted to natural history and systematic botany ... LINK

Missouri Botanical Garden's Database Server:
This site provides access to the Missouri Botanical Garden's VAST (VAScular Tropicos) nomenclatural database and associated authority files ... LINK

Peking University Center for Bioinformatics Plant Databases:
Several transcriptomics and proteonomics databases are accessible from this web site ... LINK

Professor Peter Steven's Angiosperm Phylogeny Website:
Professor Peter F. Stevens under the auspices of the Missouri Botanical Garden has compiled this detailed library resource for use by students, teachers, and research botanists interested in phylogeny of flowering plants. The site, which is based on the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group's proposed classification of orders and families of flowering plants contains extensive data on morphological and biochemical characters complete with bibliographies, character sets, distribution maps, and sample cladograms. One feature of the phylogenetic reconstructions is built-in linkage with metadata ... LINK

Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew:
This is the official web site for the Kew Gardens ... LINK

TreeBase:
The Yale University Peabody Museum hosts this phylogenetic relational database web page ... LINK

Tree of Life Project:
Originally designed for biologists this site has been adapted for use by students and teachers in high school and college to help them better understand the evolution of life on Earth. Gigantopteroid readers should be especially interested in section of the Tree of Life web site that deals with angiosperms and the fossil history of the group. Compiled by Christine Edwards, Doug Soltis, and Pam Soltis the page devoted to angiosperms is a good learning resource with several links to other web sites ... LINK

University of Calgary Algorithmic Botany Web Site:
Interested in modeling plant development and the mechanical forces of insect exoskeletons on plant cell surfaces? Check out this web site ... LINK

University of California, Berkeley, Deep Gene and Deep Green Web Pages:
The University of California, Berkeley Bryology Laboratory and the Jepson Herbarium maintain a web site devoted to the "Deep Gene" and "Deep Green" projects. The goal of these projects is to explore ways in which comparative phylogenetic studies can inform genomic studies, and vice-versa. The group will foster a series of professional meetings, workshops, training activities for K-12 teachers, undergraduates, and graduate students. The web site contains educational materials relevant to both professionals and the general public. Teachers, interested web surfers, and research professionals should visit the site! ... LINK

University of California, Berkeley Jepson Herbarium:
Students of California botany should add this link to their favorites. This is the portal to the Jepson Manual Interchange and SMASCH databases for the California flora ... LINK

University of Freiburg Botanic Garden, Plant Biomechanics Group:
This web page of the Freiburg Botanical Garden explores the biomechanics of the staminal lever arm mechanism of Salvia that may be important in adaptive radiation of mints. The reader will find links to research specialists at the Garden with access to the main pages of this interesting web site ... LINK