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The links below provide access to pages on the Internet relevant to taxonomy and nomenclature of plants. If you find a link which no longer works please contact us.
The list is not exhaustive. If you can recommend other sites relevant to nomenclature and taxonomy, or which contains searchable databases of plant names, please let us know.

SOURCES OF INFORMATION and DATABASES

• Conservation on the Web
  A compilation of web references prepared by Judith Cheney.

• Botanic Gardens Conservation International
  BGCI is the foremost source for information on Botanic Gardens around the World, and on the Global Strategy for Plant Conservation. A recent addition to its website is the ability to upload your own list of taxa, which can then be downloaded again to reveal the IUCN conservation status of each one, as well as the number of other botanic gardens holding the taxon. This is invaluable in providing an instant audit of the conservation value of your collections. The latest offering is a free email newsletter: 'Cultivate' featuring garden news, topical articles, opinions, garden of the month and your feedback.

• Harvard University Herbaria Databases
  Provides access to databases of plant names (including IPNI), Botanists, Collectors, Authors, Publications and Specimens.

• Sir Harold Hillier Gardens and Arboretum online database
  Online database of plants at the Sir Harold Hillier Gardens and Arboretum. Allows searching with either scientific or common names.

• The International Plant Names Index (IPNI)
  The International Plant Names Index (IPNI) is a database of the names and associated basic bibliographical details of all seed plants. Its goal is to eliminate the need for repeated reference to primary sources for basic bibliographic information about plant names. The data are freely available and are gradually being standardized and checked. IPNI will be a dynamic resource, depending on direct contributions by all members of the botanical community.

• International Organization for Plant Information
  The website for IOPI, with more links to searchable databases. Includes a Database of databases.

• The Internet Directory for Botany
  This is a great place to start. It provides hundreds of links to relevant web sites.

• Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh online databases
  Several databases provided by RBGE can be accessed from this page. They include the database of Flora Europaea, and the RBGE Catalogue of Living Collections. T

• Royal Botanic Gardens Kew online databases
  This site provides access to several databases at Kew, including Brummitt's Vascular Plant Families and Genera, and Brummitt & Powell's Authors of Plant Names.

• Royal Horticultural Society online databases
  Details of a range of plants are available from this site. The databases included are RHS Plant Finder Online and The RHS Online Garden Catalogue.

• The UK Biodiversity Action Plan (UKBAP)
  This site provides information on LBAPs, Species Action plans etc.

• Botanical Society of the British Isles
  Much useful information on the British and Irish Flora

• The Irish Botany Newspage
  Part of the National Botanic Gardens website, with links to current Botanical activities and findings in Ireland, and to Ireland's national response to the Global Strategy for Plant Conservation

• British Bryological Society
  This site provides access to almost everything there is to know about British and Irish bryophytes, as well as downloads on how to grow them

• Northern Ireland's Flora and Fauna
  Habitas online is the Ulster Museum's remarkable website to all aspects of Northern Ireland's biological heritage

• Irish Naturalist Journal
  This journal has been the primary source for research on the Irish Flora for 120 years.