Flora of Europe, General information.

This "Flora on line" is an - amateur - photo-herbarium and at the beginnig of 1997 it contains ca. 660 pictures of flowers, mostly of southern Europe. There are 284 species (63 families, 179 genera)

Up till now it is the work of one person, but several people contacted me to send there pictures.

Version 3.0.0 again has several changes: Thank you all, for advising me !

The pictures now have the name of the species, mostly in the upper left corner.
The links no longer contains spaces, so that, for instance, unix machines no longer refuses them.
Several mis-spellings have been corrected.
A few false identifications are corrected.
Not all the botanical names are up-to-date: I am working on that topic, but my resources are limited. Most of my literature is a bit old.
If you have comments, email them to "aart@knoware.nl".

Send Your Own Pictures !!

Conditions for adding flowers/pictures to this flora:

all information must be in english;
the pictures must be good;
classification (diagnoses) of species are as correct as possible;
data must be in a standard form;

Up till now descriptions are mostly taken from the "Flora Europea", but that is certainly no must. A lot of work has to be done here, because only a few species have their descriptions at this moment.

Literature used at this start:

Flora Europea: Nutin et al. Standard work, 5 volumes, text only;
Fl.o.S.W.Europe: Oleg Polunin & B.E.Smythes, Flowers of S.W.Europe; 1973;
Fl.o.Europe: Oleg Polunin, Flowers of Europe; 1973;
Exkfl.v.Deutschl.: W.Rothmaler, Exkursionsflora von Deutschland 1994;

The works of Polunin (& Smythes), with their many good pictures are still very good for first recognition in the field.
The german flora covers the german territory in 3 volumes.Many good designs. Also one volume about lower plants ("Niedere Pflanzen").
Add your own good books.

Other interesting biology sites:

FLORIDA WILDFLOWER PAGE ; provides hundreds of photos of Florida wildflowers.
A COLLECTION OF BOTANY RELATED URL's; from the Botanical Museum, Finnish Museum of Natural History, provides hundreds of links to botanical information on the Internet.
CSUBIOWEB - BOTANY; California State Univerity Biol.www ; Many sites
The Ardent Gardener; " for the seriously nutty gardener, beginning to advanced."

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