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Systematics websites - these have pictures, family descriptions, species descriptions, conservation information, distribution maps, etc
    Weakley's in-progress flora for the Carolinas and Virginia
    The USDA Plants Database
    The SC Plant Atlas
    Name that Plant ID site

    http://www.botany.hawaii.edu/faculty/carr/pfamilies.html
    http://www.hort.uconn.edu/plants/
    http://www.csdl.tamu.edu/FLORA/gallery.htm   (this site is especially good for images)
    http://www.floridata.com/main_fr.cfm?state=Welcome&viewsrc=welcome.htm  (another good site for images, and cultivation info - mostly ornamentals)
    http://florawww.eeb.uconn.edu/
    http://www.natureserve.org/
    http://www.2bnthewild.com/ (this is a great site for images of wildflowers in the Southeast, plus lots of other information and a simple key)
    http://www.sci.sdsu.edu/plants/plantsystematics/inst.html - this site includes PowerPoint files that describe plant families, illustrated with photograph

Glossaries:
    http://courses.bio.psu.edu/bio414/terms.html - this site has many terms illustrated with diagrams and photographs!
    http://www.anbg.gov.au/glossary/croft.html - this is a pretty comprehensive Australian site
    http://www.mobot.org/MOBOT/Research/APweb/welcome.html - this site has tons of information on systematics as well as a glossary

The International Code of Botanical Nomenclature - http://www.bgbm.fu-berlin.de/iapt/nomenclature/code/SaintLouis/0000St.Luistitle.htm

Conservation Organizations
    The Nature Conservancy - http://www.nature.org/
    Ducks Unlimited - http://www.ducks.org/
    The Sierra Club - http://www.sierraclub.org/
    The Natural Resources Defense Council - http://www.nrdc.org/
    The National Wildlife Federation - http://www.nwf.org/
    The Virginia Conservation Network - http://www.vcnva.org/

The South Carolina Native Plant Society website -   http://cufp.clemson.edu/scnativeplants/

A naturalist consulting company's page with tons of great information on natural history, jobs, etc. - http://www.ranger146.com/

Carnivorous Plants
    http://www.sarracenia.com/

The Texas Rose Rustlers - http://www.texas-rose-rustlers.com/

An interesting site on roadside vegetation management -  http://filebox.vt.edu/users/jodaniel/

Pest Management from NCSU - http://www.ces.ncsu.edu/depts/ent/notes/O&T/index.html

The US Forest Service website -  http://www.fs.fed.us/

The Ecological Society of America website -  http://www.esa.org/

The Soil Science Society of America website -  http://www.soils.org/

A geology site maintained by a geology textbook publisher -  http://college.hmco.com/geology/resources/geologylink/index.html

Bob Peet's site - Dr. Peet is one of the better known plant ecologists in the southeast -  http://www.bio.unc.edu/faculty/peet/

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