Identification Keys

Web References

CyberKeys

Interactive Plant Family ID Key - Biology 211: Taxonomy of Flowering Plants at Colby College

Thonner's Key to the Families of Flowering Plants

Dr. Cooney's An Advanced Field Guide to Wildflowers of the Northeast Combining Field and Systematic Botany Accessing Gleason and Cronquist (1991 and 1998) By Identifying Plant Families

Key to the Genera of Woody Plants (Brooklyn Botanic Garden New York Metropolitan Flora project)

Flora of North America Online Treatments: (Ferns and Fern allies) Pteridophytes, Conifers (Gymnosperms), Magnoliophyta.

Keys to Some Common Trees of the Lewisburg {PA} Area Abrahmson, Bucknell University, bi-330

What Tree Is That? National Arbor Day Foundation

Key to Gymnosperms- Flora of Carolinas and Virginia

Key to Ferns and Fern Allies- Flora of Carolinas and Virginia

Festuca of North America: Descriptions, Illustrations, Identifications and Information Retrieval Aiken, S.G., Dallwitz, M.J., McJannet, C.L. and Consaul, L.L. (1996 and onwards)

Orchids of Wisconsin, USA

Keys to Drosera

On-Line Key to the Lemnaceae Wayne Armstrong

Fruit Key CSU BioWeb

Bay Grass Identification Key Maryland Department of Natural Resources

Identification Collages

Pine Cone Identification Page [Gymnosperms] University of Delaware Botanic Garden (identification collage; images load slowly)

Oak Identification [Quercus] University of Delaware Botanic Garden (identification collage; images load slowly)

Magnolia Identification University of Delaware Botanic Garden (identification collage; images load slowly)

Book Keys

(A more Detailed list is UNDER CONSTRUCTION)

Selected Books/Guides for Plant Identification in Virginia Stan Shetler, Virginia Native Plant Society

Edits and Supplements to Floras

Frodin, D. G. 1984. Guide to Standard Floras of the World. New York: Cambridge University Press. "An annotated, geographically arranged systematic bibliography of the principal floras, enumerations, checklists, and chorological atlases of different areas."

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