The Owen library contains many resources for students and faculty interested in botany. If you have any questions not answered on the WSU Libraries website or would like to request a book or journal on any subject related to botany, please contact Betty Galbraith. For questions concerning the Botany program, please visit the School of Biological Sciences website.

Indexes, Abstracts and Other Databases.

• Index to American Botanical Literature
• International Plant Names Index: A database of the names and bibliographical details of seed plants.
• PLANTS: A single source of standardized information about plants, including: names, identifiers, distribution, crop information, symbols, growth data, and other plant information. This database focuses on vascular plants, mosses, liverworts, hornworts, and lichens of the U.S. and territories.

Internet Links

• Angiosperm Phylogeny Website
• Botany: A compilation of practical botanical information, from the National Biological Information Infrastructure, that contains numerous links organized by subject.
• Common Names of Plant Diseases: A list of plant pathogens and diseases.
• Early Classics in Biogeography, Distribution, and Diversity Studies: To 1950 A bibliography and full-text archive of classic resources, and primary sources for the study of geographical distribution and diversity of plants and animals published up to, and including, 1950.
• International Code of Botanical Nomenclature: Also known as the Tokyo Code.
• Internet Directory for Botany: An index to botanical information available online; includes an alphabetical directory and a categorical directory.
• National Library of the Environment
• New York Botanical Garden Vascular Plant Type Catalog: A catalog of approximately 75,000 vascular plant type specimens by family
• PlantFacts: A search engine for agricultural extension fact sheets and images from numerous universities and government research centers from across the United States and Canada.
• Red List: The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species provides taxonomic, conservation status and distribution information on taxa that have been evaluated as at risk of extinction.
• TROPICOS Vascular plant nomenclature, bibliographic, and specimen database.
• USDA Fungal Databases
• Vascular Plant Image Library
• Virtual Library of Botany/Plant Biology
• Wieslander Vegetation Type Mapping Project