Welcome to Plant Taxonomy!
Look at some pictures from
the 2002 field trip.
I'll try to keep this page up-to-date with quizzes, helpful sites, and other information. You can review lecture presentations here.
To see a big project involving cladistics and phylogenetic classification, go to the Tree of Life and browse around for a bit.
To get you started, here's a "Greenhouse Tour" that a group did a few years ago.
There are several excellent sites that you might find helpful
in your studies of plant families. My personal favorite is Dr. Gerry
Carr's page of Vascular Plant
Families, images and information. His pictures are fabulous, and
you can get to the families by clicking on the appropriate branch in the
phylogram!
The TAMU Flowering
Plant Gateway has more than you'll ever want to know about flowering
plants, but it is sometimes a little slow. One nice thing, you can
access families arranged according to the Angiosperm Phylogeny Working Group,
which is the system we'll be following (more or less). Also, there
is a nice listing of definitions
and drawings of vegetative and floral morphology.
The Botany Department at the University of Wisconsin also
has a great collection of images in the Virtual Foliage Page, organized
by division, subclass, family, etc. Go to the Plant Diversity section.
There is also a nice selection of general Botany images you may find useful.
Also try the Guide to Flowering Plant Families
or the synoptic Flowering
Plant Family Key from Colby College. (Note, however, that some
resources may be using a different taxonomic system than the one we are using,
and it might be a little harder to locate the images you want.) I'll
use some of these images in class, and some of the quiz images also come
from these sites. Let me know if you find any other good sites!