There are many valuable resources on the web. Below are just a few sites that Mt. Cuba Center staff find useful. (These links should open in a new window)
http://herbarium.unc.edu/flora.htm
The Flora of Carolinas, Virginia, and Georgia, Northern Florida, and Surrounding Areas by Alan S. Weakley in a downloadable format.
http://www.efloras.org/flora_page.aspx?flora_id=1
The current list of completed on-line volumes for the Flora of North America.
http://plants.usda.gov/
United States Department of Agriculture, National Resources Conservation Service web site providing standardized information about the vascular plants, mosses, liverworts, hornworts, and lichens of the U.S. and its territories.
http://www.natureserve.org/explorer/servlet/NatureServe?init=Species
NatureServe Explorer provides an array of information about the conservation status, taxonomy, distribution, life history, and habitat requirements of the species and ecological communities it covers.
http://www.upenn.edu/paflora/id8.htm
The Pennsylvania Flora Project and related areas.
http://www.southeasternflora.com/index.asp
Southeastern Flora is an online resource to assist with the identification of native or naturalized wildflowers found in the southeastern United States.
http://www.wildflower.org/bibliography/
A searchable bibliography compiled by the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center Library & Archive.
http://www.ct-botanical-society.org/index.html
Information developed by the Connecticut Botanical Society on wildflowers, wildflower identification, native plant gardening and more.
http://www.biol.vt.edu/digital_atlas/
This is the site for the digital Atlas of the Virginia Flora that continues to be updated as new information is incorporated.
http://cricket.biol.sc.edu/Plant_Atlas_HTML/
The South Carolina Plant Atlas showing county by county plant distribution.
http://www.alabamaplants.com/index.html
Provides users with useful information to identify plants found growing in the wild in Alabama.
http://www.delawarewildflowers.org/
Images of Delaware native wildflowers and links to information on other data bases.
http://pubs.caes.uga.edu/caespubs/pubcd/B987/B987-contents.htm
Trees, shrubs and native vines of Georgia with gardening information.
http://www.pawildflower.org/
The Pennsylvania Native Plant Society.