Botanical Links

Active Research Herbaria:

• Bailey Hortorium at Cornell University (BH)
• Brooklyn Botanic Garden (BKL)
• Clinton Herbarium at the Buffalo Museum of Science (BUF)
• New York Botanical Garden (NY)
• New York State Museum (NYS)
• See Index Herbariorum for complete list of New York Herbaria

Garden Clubs:

• Federated Garden Clubs of New York State, Inc.
• Habitat Gardening in Central New York (HGCNY) 
• The Native Plant Center at Westchester Community College
• Oneonta Garden Club
• Gardening Databases

Recent Studies of the New York Flora:

• Native Orchids of New York State
• Adirondack Orchid Survey
• New York Metropolitan Flora Project (NYMF)
• Tompkins County Flora Project
• The Schenectady County Flora Project

Preserves and Other Places to Visit

• Adirondack Land Trust
• Baltimore Woods Nature Center (Syracuse Area)
• Bergen Swamp Preservation Society
• Central New York (CNY) Land Trust
• Columbia County Land Conservancy
• Finger Lakes Land Trust
• Genesee Land Trust
• Hawthorne Valley Farm Website (Columbia County)
• Friends of Hempstead Plains Website
• Lake George Land Conservancy
• Mohawk Hudson Land Conservancy
• Mohonk Preserve
• NYC Wildflower Week
• The Nature Conservency (TNC) New York
• Protectors of Pine Oak Woods (Staten Island)
• Rennselaer Plateau Alliance
• Native Plant Center at Westchester Community College
• Western New York Land Conservancy
• Wikipedia List of Botanical Gardens in New York State
• Wikipedia List of Nature Centers in New York State

Online Random Access Keys useful to New York botanists:

• Brassicaceae of the World
• Grasses of New York (SLIKS)
• Legumes of New York (SLIKS)
• Gymnosperms of the US (SLIKS)
• Monocot wetland plants of the US (SLIKS)
• Ericaceae of the US (SLIKS)

Blogs:

• New York Flora Association Blog
• Bob Klips Botany Website
• Central NY Botany Blog
• Cornell Mushroom Blog
• Curious By Nature
• Invasive Species of Eastern USA Blog
• FROGS – Friends of the Great Swamp
• Google Images
• Moss Notes
• Moss Plants and More
• Plant Talk Blog from NYBG
• Salicicola – Eastern Mass. Plants
• Saratoga Woods and Waterways Blog
• The Vasculum Blog

Regional Botanical Groups:

• Adirondack Botanical Society (ABS)
• Capital Region Native Plant Society
• Canandaigua Botanical Society
• Catskill Native Plant Society (CNPS)
• Central New York Mycological Society (CNYMS)
• Finger Lakes Native Plant Society (FLNPS)
• Hudsonia – a non-profit environmental research institute
• Leatherstocking Botanical Society
• Long Island Botanical Society (LIBS)
• Niagara Frontier Botanical Society (NFBS)
• Torrey Botanical Society (NYC Area)

Field Stations:

• Bard College Field Station 
• Rice Creek Field Station (SUNY-Oswego)
• Roosevelt Wild Life Station (SUNY ESF)
• Brauer Field Station (SUNY Cortland)
• Biological Field Station of SUNY Oneonta

Natural History Museums:

• American Museum of Natural History
• Buffalo Museum of Science
• Museum of the Earth
• New York State Museum
• Pember Museum (Grenville)
• Rochester Museum and Science Center
• Science Museum of Long Island
• South Fork Natural History Museum
• Staten Island Museum
• The Wild Center (Tupper Lake)

Information Resources

• Annotated List of Plant Guides for New York
• Biota of North America Program (BONAP)
• Botany Games and Resources for Kids
• Database of Vascular Plants of Canada (VASCAN)
• Go Botany (New England Wild Flower Society)
• GoBotany Simple Plant Key
• New York Wildflower Monitoring Project (on iNaturalist)
• Flora of New York – Flora noveboracensis (on WikiBooks)
• Flora of North America
• Identifying North American Lichens: A guide to the literature
• Internet Directory for Botany 
• Nature Serve Explorer 
• New York Flora Atlas
• New York Invasive Species Council
• New York Metropolitan Flora Project (NYMF)
• New York Natural Heritage Program
• New York Natural Heritage Program Rare Plants
• New York Natural Heritage Program Rare Plant Guides
• New York State Museum Publications
• NYFA’s You Tube Identification Videos
• NYC Metro Plant Site Lists
• Plants of the Northeastern United States
• USDA Plants Database
• An update of the scientific names in Newcomb’s Wildflower Guide (PDF)
• The Life Cycle of Plants
• Infraspecific Taxa of New York State

New York State Invasive Species Information and PRISM websites:

• NY Invasive Species Information
• New York iMapInvasives
• New York State Prohibited and Regulated Invasive Plants (PDF)
• Adirondack Park Invasive Plant Program (APIPP)
• Capital Mohawk PRISM
• Catskill Regional Invasive Species Partnership (CRISP)
• Finger Lakes PRISM
• Long Island Invasive Species Management Area (LIISMA)
• Lower Hudson PRISM
• St. Lawrence Eastern Lake Ontario PRISM (SLELO)
• Western NY PRISM