Botany & Horticulture

WebCat

WebCat is the online catalog for the Mark & Helen Osterlin Library. Materials on these topics can be located by doing a subject search using the terms botany or horticulture, or alternate headings such as agriculture, plant physiology, the names of specific plants, etc. An alternative method of locating is browsing the library shelves in the areas of QK (botany) and SB (horticulture).

Books

Title: Botany illustrated : introduction to plants, major groups, flowering plant families
     Location: QK 45.2.G57 1984 - Stacks 

Title: Environment and plant ecology
     Location: QK 901.E85 1974 - Stacks 

Title: A history of horticulture in America to 1860
     Location: SB 319.H43 1988 - Stacks 

 Title: Horticultural science
     Location: SB 318.J35 1986 - Stacks

Title: An introduction to plant anatomy
     Location: QK 641.E3 1977 - Stacks 

Title: Living with plants ; a gardener's guide to practical botany
     Location: SB 454.S36 1992 - Stacks 

Title: The Marshall Cavendish illustrated encyclopedia of plants and earth sciences
     Location: QK 7.M37 1988 - Reference

Title: Nature, mother of invention : the engineering of plant life
     Location:QK 50.P3313 1976 - Stacks 

Title: The Penguin dictionary of plant sciences
     Location: QK 9.B3 1999 - Reference 

Title: The plant - book : a portable dictionary of the higher plants utilizing Cronquist's…
     Location: QK 11.M29 1987 - Stacks 

Title: Practical botany
     Location: QK 47.P876 1983 - Stacks 

Title: Practical plant anatomy
     Location: QK 673.F65 1974 - Stacks

Title: The private life of plants : a natural history of plant behavior
     Location: QK 50.A77 1995 - Stacks 

Title: The Royal Horticultural Society shorter dictionary of gardening
     Location: SB 450.95.R69 1998 - Reference

Journals

Title: Michigan botanist
     Location: Journals

Title: American journal of botany
     Location: Journals

Title: Horticulture
     Location: Journals

Title: The plant science bulletin
     Location: Online @ http://www.botany.org/PlantScienceBulletin/

Michigan Resources

Title: Michigan flora ; a guide to the identification and occurrence of the native and naturalized seed-plants of the state
     Location: K 167.V67 - Stacks

Title: The plants of Michigan ; simple keys for the identification of the native seed plants of the state
      Location: QK 167.G5 - Stacks

Title: Great lakes coastal plants : a field guide
      Location: QK 167.H631994 - Stacks

Title: Aboriginal relationships between culture and plant life in the Upper Great Lakes region
      Location: GN 2.M67 - Stacks

Title: Orchids of the western Great Lakes region
      Location: Q 11.C95 - Stacks

Title: Michigan botanist
     Location: Journal, Periodical

  Web Resources

PlantFacts: Ohio State University
    URL: http://plantfacts.osu.edu/
      Over 260,000 pages of information from every land-grant university in the U.S. and several government institutions across Canada, images, videos, FAQs and glossaries.

Botany.com, the Encyclopedia of Plants
      URL: http://botany.com/
        Includes common names of plants, botanical names of plants, the dictionary of botanical words, temperature maps, pests and diseases and more.

Botany: The World Wide Web Virtual Library
      URL: http://www.ou.edu/cas/botany-micro/www-vl/
        A simple, comprehensive virtual library covering most disciplines relating to plants including breeding, plant ecology, natural history, agriculture and horticulture, plant pathology, etc.

Centres of Plant Diversity the Americas
      URL:http://www.nmnh.si.edu/botany/projects/cpd/
        Produced by the Smithsonian Institute, this source provides information on 75 sites dedicated to the conservation of plant diversity in the Americas.

Garden Web
     URL: http://www.gardenweb.com/
       The largest gardening site on the web, with garden forums, articles on gardening, directories of nurseries, gardens and gardening organizations.

Plants National Database
     URL: http://plants.usda.gov/
       Contains listings of the plants known to occur as native or naturalized within the boundaries of the U.S., including its territories.

Plant Protection Research Unit
     URL: http://www.ars.usda.gov/main/site_main.htm?modecode=19-07-10-00
       The Plant Protection Research Unit of the USDA consists of research programs emphasizing practical pest control methods that minimize or eliminate chemical pesticide usage while maintaining damage below economic threshold.

The Tree of life
    URL: http://tolweb.org/tree/phylogeny.html
       A collaborative web project produced by biologists from around the world which, on more than 2600 web pages, provides information about diversity of organisms on earth, their history and characteristics.

Botanical Society of America
    URL: http://www.botany.org/newsite/botany/
       Gives information on the field of Botany, as well as links to numerous plant images and stories covered in American Journal of Botany.

Infomine Scholarly Internet Resource Collections
    URL: http://infomine.ucr.edu/
       A virtual library of Internet sources relevant to faculty, students, and research staff at the university level. [Select "Biological, Agricultural and Med Sciences" and search using the term botany or horticulture.]

Internet Public Library
    URL: http://www.ipl.org/
       Links to more than 25 sites. [Access by selecting Science and Technology, select Life Sciences, select Plant Biology (Botany)].

MEL Internet
    URL: http://web.mel.org/index.jsp
       Links to a variety of librarian recommended web sites. [Simply type in Botany or Horticulture in the search box and obtain numerous links to related sites.]