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General Plant Databases
- Desert Tropicals
- A copyrighted database of desert plants native to the USA. Be sure to reword any information garnered from here to make it an original creative work and thus avoid copyright issues.
- PlantDatabase.co.uk
- A copyrighted general plant database, mostly UK climate focussed. Note that although this is a user generated database, it is copyright protected. Be sure to reword any information gathered.
- Center for New Crops & Plant Products
- A database of less common species investigated for their value as agricultural crops. Indexed by species name. There's also a list of famine food species available.
Uses
Medicinal
- Purdue University "A Guide to Medicinal and Aromatic Plants"
- A great database of medicinal plants with some original sources archived to read online.
- Annies Remedy
- A commercial website selling herbal remedies, but with some pages of medicinal uses for common medicinal herbs and plants.
- Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
- Chemicals in plants and ethnobotanical uses of plants
- A Modern Herbal
- hyper-text version, first published in 1931, by Mrs. M. Grieve
Ecological Functions
Dynamic/Mineral accumulators and Nitrogen Fixers
- OrgegonBD "Dynamic Accumulators of Nutrients for Composting"
- A great table of mineral accumulating plants indicating which plants draw which minerals
Interactions and Polycultures
Companion planting lists
- OregonBD "Companion Plants"
- A list of companion plants - fairly standard information which can be found in many places. No information on the WHY's and all unreferenced.
Propagation
- UC Davies Plant Sciences Rooting Database
- A database of cutting rooting with environmental conditions, success rate, etc