Herbarium Resources
OTHER TENNESSEE HERBARIA
- Austin Peay State University Herbarium (), Clarksville: 50,000 specimens
- East Tennessee State University Herbarium (ETSU), Johnson City: 17,000 specimens
- Great Smoky Mountains National Park Herbarium (GSMNP), Gatlinburg: 7,700 specimens
- Tennessee Tech University: Paul Hollister Herbarium (), Cookeville: 25,000 specimens
- Lincoln Memorial University Herbarium (LNCN), Harrogate: 5,400 specimens
- Middle Tennessee State University Herbarium (MTSU), Murfreesboro: 22,000 specimens
- Rhodes College Herbarium (SWMT), Memphis: 9,000 specimens
- University of Tennessee, Knoxville Herbarium (), Knoxville: 550,000 specimens
- University of Tennessee, Chattanooga Herbarium (), Chattanooga: 30,000 specimens
- The University of the South: Sewanee Herbarium (UOS), Sewanee: 6,700 specimens
- Vanderbilt University Herbarium (), now located at BRIT in Fort Worth, Texas: 300,000 specimens
SPECIMEN DATABASES
- (233 herbaria in 14 Southeastern US states)
- (HUH)
- (K)
- (LINN)
- (MO)
- (NY)
- (US)
- (YU)
NOMENCLATURE & PHYLOGENETICS
The Code is the set of rules and recommendations dealing with the formal botanical names that are given to plants, fungi and a few other groups of organisms. It was updated with the Shenzhen Code in 2016.
Tropicos was originally created for Missouri Botanical Garden research but has since been made available to the world's scientific community. All of the nomenclatural, bibliographic, and specimen data accumulated in their electronic databases during the past 25 years are publicly available here. This system has over 1.2 million scientific names and 4.0 million specimen records.
An international collaborative program that provides the latest peer reviewed and
published opinions on the accepted scientific names and synonyms of selected plant
families. It allows you to search for all the scientific names of a particular plant,
or the areas of the world in which it grows (distribution).
The World Flora Online provides the most widely accepted Latin name for most species,
with links to all synonyms by which that species has been known. This collaboration
between the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew and the Missouri Botanical Garden aims to be
comprehensive for species of vascular plants and bryophytes.
A database of the names and associated basic bibliographical details of seed plants,
ferns, and lycophytes. It doesn't provide information on what are currently accepted
names and what are taxonomic (i.e. heterotypic) synonyms.
The is an informal international group of systematic botanists who collaborate to establish a consensus on the taxonomy of flowering plants (angiosperms) that reflects new knowledge about plant relationships discovered through phylogenetic studies.
. The Compositae is the largest plant family in the world. The Global Compositae Database is built on the Global Compositae Checklist and an international network of taxonomic experts assesses, edits and updates the taxonomic information for this important family.
KEYS & DESCRIPTIONS
Information on the names, taxonomic relationships, continent-wide distributions, and
morphological characteristics of all plants native and naturalized found in North
America north of Mexico.
In-depth descriptions of all the families, genera, and species of gymnosperms. For
each species, author Chris Earle provides information on classification, description,
ecology, ethnobotany, and various other topics of interest.
Interactive keys for the identification of genera and species of the mustard family.
JAVA required.
LITERATURE SEARCH
Botanicus is a freely accessible portal to digitized historic systematic botanical
literature from the Missouri Botanical Garden Library.
The Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) is a consortium of natural history and botanical
libraries that cooperate to digitize the legacy literature.
Database of the literature of systematic botany published between 1753 and 1940.
TENNESSEE PLANTS
SOCIETIES