Online plant identification sites Europe & World

Gestart door Erik Simons, mei 07, 2014, 18:22:31 PM

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Erik Simons

Some help for identifying plants on very useful sites.
The countries and/or regions are in alphabetical order by English names.

WORLDWIDE


General

http://www.farmalierganes.com/Flora/Angiospermae/Orobanchaceae/Host_Orobanchaceae_Checklist.htm Orobanchaceae and their host plants

Distribution/occurrences

https://www.gbif.org/species/search Worldwide
http://ww2.bgbm.org/europlusmed/query.asp Euro-Mediteranean
http://siflore.fcbn.fr/?cd_ref=&r=metro France
http://www.anthos.es/ Spain
http://www.floraweb.de Germany
https://www.brc.ac.uk/plantatlas/ Great Britain and Ireland, BSBI

Names/synonyms/taxonomy

http://www.plantsoftheworldonline.org/ Plants of the World Online (POWO)
www.theplantlist.org/ the Plant List (TPL; not updated anymore)
http://ww2.bgbm.org/EuroPlusMed/query.asp Euro+Med plant database
http://www.tropicos.org/NameSearch.aspx Tropicos (Missouri Botanical Garden database)
http://www.ville-ge.ch/musinfo/bd/cjb/africa/recherche.php African Plant database (Jardin Botanique de Genève)
https://www.nederlandsesoorten.nl/linnaeus_ng/app/views/search/nsr_search_extended.php?group_id=118264&presenceStatusList=&dna-options=&group_id=&sort=name-valid&just_species=0&group=Tracheophyta Nederlands Soortenregister (Naturalis)

EUROPE


General

http://www.guenther-blaich.de/pflwi.php?lan=E Photos of European Plants according to Scientific Names

Austria

http://flora.nhm-wien.ac.at/Seiten-Allgemein/Pflanzengattungen.html (German) Good pictures, but incomplete
http://blumeninschwaben.de/ (German) Good keys, complete, good pictures

Croatia

https://hirc.botanic.hr/fcd/ Flora croatica. Database with species, pictures, maps and other options

Cyprus

https://www.flora-of-cyprus.eu/ Pictures, checklists, distributions etc.

Czech republic

https://www.biolib.cz/en/gallery/dir23/
http://blumeninschwaben.de/ (German) Good keys, complete, good pictures
https://pladias.cz/en (Czech/English) Pictures, good distribution maps

Finland

http://www.luontoportti.com/suomi/en/kasvit/ NatureGate (7 languages)

France

http://www.florealpes.com/ (French) Photographs of very high quality, with some useful tricks how to distinguish between 2 species ('lancer comparaison')
http://canope.ac-besancon.fr/flore/ (French) Good descriptions and differences with similar plants
http://www.tela-botanica.org/ (French) Pictures (not always correct!), areas and descriptions (not complete)
http://www.jeantosti.com/Fleurs.html (French) The Roussillon area (Pyrenées orientales)
https://www.cbn-alpin.fr/Atlas/AtlasFlore/CartesEspeces/MenuAtlas.htm (French) French alps
http://www.cbn-alpin-icono.fr/Phototheque/categories (French) Complementary to the link above, more than 10.000 pictures of French alpine plants, including biotopes
http://www.fauneflore-massifcentral.fr/botanique/ (French) Central France
https://www.preservons-la-nature.fr/flore/departement/index.html(French) Species presence for every department (or department distribution for every species; enter species name in search bar)
https://openobs.mnhn.fr/openobs-hub/advancedSearch(French) Species distribution with exact locations (entire country)
http://sinp-occitanie.fr/atlas/espece/113725(French) Species distribution (Occitania)
https://atlas.biodiversite-auvergne-rhone-alpes.fr//espece/113725(French) Species distribution (Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes)
https://nature.silene.eu/espece/113725(French) Species distribution (Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur)
https://www.mi-aime-a-ou.com/flore_ile_reunion.php(French) La Réunion

Georgia

http://biodiversity-georgia.net/
http://apa.gov.ge/en/biomravalferovneba/mtiralas-erovnuli-parkis-biomravalferovneba
http://www.unifr.ch/ecology/groupmueller/research/current-projects/invasive-plants-georgia
http://gov.ge/files/50911_50911_140443_413-1.pdf
https://ekonferans.artvin.edu.tr/index.php/ICFS/ICFS/paper/viewFile/200/213

Germany

http://blumeninschwaben.de/ (German) Good keys, complete, good pictures
http://worldplants.webarchiv.kit.edu/D/index.php (German) Flora von Deutschland - Eine Bilder-Datenbank
http://www.floraweb.de/pflanzenarten/pflanzenarten.html (German) Relevant photo-site links and distribution maps for almost all wild and escaped species
https://www.flora-germanica.de/ (German) Complementary to Blumen in Schwaben (Flora-de) and Floraweb.de.

Great Britain and Ireland

http://bsbi.org/identification PlantCrib, advanced botany for Great Britain/details appear in PDF docs
http://www.botanicalkeys.co.uk/flora/ Identification keys for British and Irish plants
https://www.brc.ac.uk/plantatlas/ Ecology, maps, pictures
http://www.aphotoflora.com/ SW England
http://www.botanicalkeys.co.uk/northumbria/ NW England

Greece

http://portal.cybertaxonomy.org/flora-greece/intro Pictures, distribution
http://www.west-crete.com/flowers-crete.htm Crete and Greece
http://www.cretanflora.com/ Crete
http://www.tilo-botanica.eu/index.html the isle of TILO
http://wildflowersofskopelos.org.uk/Blog.html the isle of Skopelos
http://worldplants.webarchiv.kit.edu/rhodos/index.php
https://floraionica.univie.ac.at/index.php?site=2 Islands westcoast
https://jagel.nrw/peloponnes/FamFamilien.htm (German) Photo galleries

Iceland

http://www.iceland-nh.net/plants/ (Dutch, English)

Ireland

http://www.wildflowersofireland.net/
http://www.habitas.org.uk/flora/splist.asp?Sort=latin&Family=&PlantGroup

Italy

https://www.florae.it/ (Italian) Keys largely (or all?) from Pignatti (1982). Sometimes old names/synonyms, but generally fine to work with.
https://www.actaplantarum.org/galleria_flora/albums_new.php (Italian) Acta Plantarum: search for a picture overview by selecting region and/or family/genus
https://www.actaplantarum.org/flora/flora.php?m=0 (Italian) Acta Plantarum: search for very informative info-cards per species
http://luirig.altervista.org/flora/taxa/floraindice.php (Italian) Uses outdated distribution data. Acta plantarum is preferred in most cases. Can be used to find additional pictures.
https://cambriasalvatore.wixsite.com/flora-della-sicilia (Italian) Sicily

Malta

http://www.maltawildplants.com/wildplants_index.php Description and pictures

Club Med

http://www.florasilvestre.es/mediterranea/ (Spanish) Western Mediterranean area
http://www.mittelmeerflora.de/ (German) Identification keys and pictures for Mediterranean Europe

Netherlands/Benelux

http://www.soortenbank.nl/hoofdgroepen.php?groep=Planten&selectie=2&hoofdgroepen_pad=%2C2 (Dutch) Soortenbank, keys. Not updated anymore
https://www.verspreidingsatlas.nl/planten (Dutch) Verspreidingsatlas.nl; Actual distribution, descriptions, some pictures.
https://www.floron.nl/ (Dutch) FLORON, Floristic research
http://alienplantsbelgium.be/ Manual of the Alien Plants of Belgium
http://natuurtijdschriften.nl/search?portal=natuur;smode=simple-modify (Dutch, English) Repository of journal articles
http://natuurtijdschriften.nl/search?sort=releasesort&portal=natuur&browse-journal=yes&f1-journal=Gorteria (Dutch, English) Gorteria-Dutch Botanical Archives
https://wilde-planten.nl/ (Dutch) Photo's & descriptions of wild plants

Norway

https://www.artsdatabanken.no/ where to find species
https://www.artsobservasjoner.no/
http://www.naturfakta.no/planter/?navn=etterfarge.htm search by colours
http://www.kristvi.com/testdb/alfabetisk.php?sort1=latin&test=1 good pictures

NW-Europe

http://blumeninschwaben.de/bestimmungsschluessel.htm (German) Identification keys and pictures for North-western Europe

Portugal, Madeira, Azores

http://www.flora-on.pt/ (Portuguese) good pictures, not complete (yet), link to Flora Iberica
http://siaram.azores.gov.pt/flora/flora-vascular/_intro.html (Portuguese)

Pyrenees

http://atlasflorapyrenaea.org/florapyrenaea/index.jsp (Spanish, Portuguese, French) Atlas of flora of the Spanish and French Pyrenees
http://www.lafloredespyrenees.fr/ (French) only pictures
http://azunpeche.free.fr/flore.htm (French) mainly the Val d'Azun

Russia

http://www.plantarium.ru/page/taxonomy/taxon/42054.html (Russian), but using right-clic "translate", you could use it.
http://www.efloras.org/flora_page.aspx?flora_id=2 e-Flora of China. Complete flora of China (including Taiwan) with keys and some good drawings

Slovenia

Sloveniaflowers Flowers of Triglav and Narodni National Park
dbiodbs.univ.trieste.it/ Woody plants of the Triglav national park
sloveniahiking.rocks Good pictures, English text
Druzine_male_flore_po Good pictures, Slovenian language
kamniski-vrh Good pictures, Slovenian language

Spain

http://www.floraiberica.es/PHP/generos_lista.php Flora Iberica, very good identification keys with drawings; on pdf, but not complete yet
https://www.biodiversidadvirtual.org/herbarium/search.html Good pictures, enter name next to 'Título'
http://www.bioveg.uma.es/varios/florandor/florandor.html Downloads for pdf of Flora of Eastern Andalusia (Oriental) and Western Andalusia (Occidental), very good floras but it takes long to download
https://www.floravascular.com/ Western Andalucia
http://www.almerinatura.com/joyas/ around Almeria
http://flora-aragon.blogspot.fr/ Aragón
https://web2020.florssilvestresdecatalunya.com/ (Catalan, but has translation option) Catalunya
http://www.apatita.com/herbario/floradealicante.php Alicante region

Sweden

http://linnaeus.nrm.se/flora/ Good pictures + maps
www.artportalen.se Where to find species

Switzerland

http://www.wsl.ch/land/products/webflora/floramodul1-en.html Distribution maps of Swiss flora; horrible pictures but a good checklist
https://www.infoflora.ch/en/ Good descriptions, pictures, no keys; based on the Flora Helvetica
http://blumeninschwaben.de/ (German) Good keys, complete, good pictures. Probably does not cover all swiss endemics?

AFRICA


Botswana

https://www.botswanaflora.com/index.php Flora of Botswana, excellent quality of pictures and descriptions, no keys

Cape Verde - Cabo Verde

Flora de Cabo Verde (portugues) Several volumes
Les Iles du Cap Vert. Géographie, biogéographie, agriculture. Flore de l'Archipel, Auguste Chevalier (1935)  (french) From: Revue Botanique Appliquée
Les Îles du Cap-Vert. Géographie, biogéographie, agriculture.  Flore de l'Archipel, Auguste Chevalier (1935). Alternative scan. PDF download slow.

Canary Islands - Canarias

http://www.floradecanarias.com/imagenes_disponibles.html Most all plants, organised per island
https://www.biodiversidadcanarias.es/biota/especies Very complete, with detailed maps
https://endemicascanarias.com/index.php/es/ Endemic plants

Caprivi strip

https://www.capriviflora.com/index.php Flora of the Caprivi Strip (Namibia), excellent quality of pictures and descriptions, no keys

Egypt

http://westerndesertflora.geolab.cz/index.php Common Plants of the Western Desert of Egypt

Gabon

http://portal.cybertaxonomy.org/flore-gabon/cdm_dataportal/taxon/e1a39297-c0e1-40d6-98b8-05ddd9c8a9ea/synonymy (French) Flore du Gabon, excellent flora, but only the old text are included

Malawi

http://www.malawiflora.com/ Flora of Malawi, excellent quality of pictures and descriptions, no keys

Morocco

http://www.floramaroccana.fr/la-flore.html (French)
https://www.teline.fr/en (French and English)
http://www.florasilvestre.es/mediterranea/index_maroc.htm (Spanish)

Mozambique

https://www.mozambiqueflora.com/speciesdata/index.php Flora of Mozambique: excellent quality of pictures and descriptions, no keys.

Zambia

https://www.zambiaflora.com/ Flora of Zambia: excellent quality of pictures and descriptions, no keys

Zimbabwe

https://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/ Flora of Zimbabwe: excellent quality of pictures and descriptions, no keys.

West Tropical Africa

https://ia802304.us.archive.org/24/items/FloraOfWestTropi00hutc/FloraOfWestTropicalAfrica-JohnHutchinson.pdf download link of Flora West Tropical Africa, an excellent standard work, with annotations
http://www.westafricanplants.senckenberg.de/root/index.php West African Plants-A photo Guide. Incomplete and with some errors still valuable

Central Africa (Congo-Kinshasa, Burundi, Rwanda)

http://www.plantentuinmeise.be/RESEARCH/DATABASES/FOCA/index.php (French) Flore d'Afrique centrale. Excellent quality, but no pictures/photographs
http://www.centralafricanplants.senckenberg.de/root/index.php Central African Plants-A photo Guide. Incomplete and with some errors still valuable

East Africa (Congo-Kinshasa, Burundi, Rwanda)

http://www.eastafricanplants.senckenberg.de/root/index.php East African Plants-A photo Guide. Incomplete and with some errors still valuable

ASIA


General

https://rbg-web2.rbge.org.uk/thaiferns/ Ferns of Thailand, Laos and Cambodja
http://portal.cybertaxonomy.org/flora-malesiana/node/38 Flora Malesiana (Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Brunei Darussalam, the Philippines, and Papua New Guinea)

China

http://www.efloras.org/flora_page.aspx?flora_id=2 e-Flora of China. Complete flora of China (including Taiwan) with keys and some good drawings
http://hengduan.huh.harvard.edu/fieldnotes/specimens/browse/browse.zpt Biodiversity of the Hengduan Mountains

India

https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/species efloraofindia
http://www.flowersofindia.net/ Incomplete, but gives general overview of flowering plants in Indian subcontinent

Mongolia

https://floragreif.uni-greifswald.de/ Virtual Guide to the Flora of Mongolia.

Nepal

http://www.efloras.org/flora_page.aspx?flora_id=110 Annotated Checklist of the Flowering Plants of Nepal 

Russia

http://www.plantarium.ru/page/taxonomy/taxon/42054.html (Russian), but using right-clic "translate", you could use it.
http://www.efloras.org/flora_page.aspx?flora_id=2 e-Flora of China. Complete flora of China (including Taiwan) with keys and some good drawings

AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND


http://lepidoptera.butterflyhouse.com.au/plants/index.html Flowering Plant Families in Australia
http://www.nzflora.info/ The definitive reference to New Zealand plants

MIDDLE EAST


Israel

http://www.wildflowers.co.il/english/plantsIndex.asp Flowers of Israel
http://flora.org.il/en/plants/ Flora of Israel Online

Qatar

http://www.unesco.org/new/uploads/media/Plant_Species_Checklist_of_Qatar.pdf An Illustrated Checklist of the Flora of Qatar

Saudi Arabia

http://www.plantdiversityofsaudiarabia.info/Biodiversity-Saudi-Arabia/Flora/Flora.htm Flora of Saudi Arabia

SOUTH AMERICA


Argentina

http://www.floraargentina.edu.ar/ (Spanish) Flora Argentina

Brazil

http://floradobrasil.jbrj.gov.br/reflora/PrincipalUC/PrincipalUC.do;jsessionid=F6710320FE44F0CD50C3E662C25B6E30 (Portuguese)
http://floradobrasil.jbrj.gov.br/reflora/listaBrasil/PrincipalUC/PrincipalUC.do?lingua=en#CondicaoTaxonCP

Chile

http://www.efloras.org/flora_page.aspx?flora_id=60 e-flora Flora of Chile

Ecuador

http://www.efloras.org/flora_page.aspx?flora_id=201 e-flora Trees and shrubs of the Andes of Ecuador

Guianas (French Guiana, Suriname and Guyana)

http://portal.cybertaxonomy.org/flora-guianas/

Caribbean

Plants of the Eastern Caribbean Plants of the Eastern Caribbean

NORTH AMERICA

http://www.efloras.org/flora_page.aspx?flora_id=1 e-Flora of North America. Complete flora of North America with keys and some good drawings
http://www.calflora.org/ Very reliable photo database of California
http://www.americansouthwest.net/plants/wildflowers/arizona.shtml Arizona
http://worldplants.webarchiv.kit.edu/PA/index.php Pennsylvania and New Jersey
https://wildflowersearch.org/ North America (also lists Hawaii and Patagonia as functional area)


Modified: 19-03-2019. Updates by Erik Simons and Ans Gorter. Layout and some additional links for Europe (Netherlands), Africa, South America and Asia and some taxonomic databases.
Modified: 27-05-2021. Updates by Martijn van Sluijs. Mostly added links based on feedback in the topic up to this date + some small layout changes.
Modified: 07-02-2022. Updates by Martijn van Sluijs. Added multiple species distribution websites for France provided by Ans Gorter. Added https://wildflowersearch.org/ as provided by Gertjan van Noord.
Modified: 21-07-2022. Updates by Martijn van Sluijs. Added suggestions by topic users since last update.
Modified: 20-12-2022. Updates by Martijn van Sluijs. Added suggestions by topic users since last update and some layout changes.

Last modified: 31-08-2023 Update by Martijn van Sluijs. Added https://pladias.cz/en/.
Erik Simons

'Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth.'

henksluis

greetings from Dandified vulture

Rien Ondersteijn

Groene groe[n]tjes.Rien.

migratorius

China (Sichuan/Eastern Tibet):
http://hengduan.huh.harvard.edu/fieldnotes/specimens/browse/browse.zpt Biodiversity of the Hengduan Mountains
Good photos – very helpful as addition to the eflora!

JanHein

bas.drost96

For India (but also useful for surrounding countries): http://www.flowersofindia.net/
By far not complete, but it gives a nice overview of flowering plants on the Indian subcontinent, and it can give you a general direction for searching.
Groeten,
Bas
Totaal 4075 soorten op waarneming.nl ingevoerd

Admin bladvlooien

Ans Gorter

#5
Just accomplished:
http://www.cbn-alpin-icono.fr/Phototheque/categories
More than 10.000 pictures of French alpine plants, also with their biotopes.
Is complementary to https://www.cbn-alpin.fr/Atlas/AtlasFlore/CartesEspeces/MenuAtlas.htm


Martijn van Sluijs

#7
Er blijken verschillen te zijn in de verspreidingskaartjes van de twee sites die voor Italië in de lijst opgenomen zijn. Voor zover ik nu kan zien zijn de verspreidingskaartjes van Acta Plantarum beter op orde (meer up-to-date, netjes in categorieën uitgesplitst, en met bronvermelding naar de site van Flora d'Italia, en bovendien een relatief actief forum wat verbonden is aan de site).

Voor het zoeken naar foto's per soort blijft http://luirig.altervista.org/flora/taxa/floraindice.php een goede bron, maar voor het gebruik van verspreidingsgegevens  (en om te checken welke soorten van een bepaald geslacht of bepaalde familie in een regio voorkomen) kun je beter https://www.actaplantarum.org/galleria_flora/albums_new.php gebruiken. Hier kan op soortnaam gezocht worden, maar ook een regio + familie + evt. geslacht geselecteerd worden. Let hierbij wel op dat soms andere geslachts- en familienamen gebruikt worden dan in de taxonomie van observation.org. Het (schijnbaar) ontbreken van een bepaalde soort in een gebied (of heel Italië) kan ook komen doordat deze soort onder een andere naam in Acta Plantarum is opgenomen; check dit bij twijfel.

Overigens staan op Acta Plantarum ook zodanig goede foto's (en staan veel foto's op beide sites), dat ik vrijwel geen gebruik maak van de andere link. Voor lastige gevallen is het wel een mooie extra bron.

Op Acta Plantarum zoeken naar 'infokaarten' per soort kan hier: https://www.actaplantarum.org/flora/flora.php?m=0.

Een compacte versie van bovenstaande tekst (of beknopte suggesties tot gebruik van de sites op basis bovenstaande tekst) zie ik graag toegevoegd aan de lijst!
Vriendelijke groeten,
Martijn

Martijn van Sluijs

Toevoeging voor Italië: https://www.florae.it/. Sleutels grotendeels (of allen?) uit Pignatti (1982). Soms oude namen/synoniemen, maar doorgaans prima werkbaar.
Vriendelijke groeten,
Martijn

Martijn van Sluijs

Vriendelijke groeten,
Martijn

gertjanvannoord

heel handige site voor USA/Canada:
https://wildflowersearch.org/

zou willen dat we zo'n site voor elk land hadden...
Gertjan van Noord

michadoliveira

Croatia: https://hirc.botanic.hr/fcd/ (Flora croatica) Database with speciespictures, maps and other options.
Validator Vliegen en Muggen + Dagvlinders Centraal Amerika

Rien Ondersteijn

De eerste onder 'Europe /general'  van Günther Blaich is onvindbaar geworden door [hinderlijke ]aanpassingen en is nu

http://www.guenther-blaich.de/pflwi.php?lan=E
Groene groe[n]tjes.Rien.


Chris Rosmalen

Groetjes,
Chris

Plantoon


migratorius

La Réunion: https://www.mi-aime-a-ou.com/flore_ile_reunion.php
Een goed overzicht van de lokale flora inclusief exoten, met allerlei handige zoekfuncties.

JanHein

Martijn van Sluijs

Voor Tsjechië https://pladias.cz/en/ toegevoegd. Erg fraai en fijne verspreidingskaartjes.
Vriendelijke groeten,
Martijn

robbe p


paulhoekstra

De flora van oostenrijk, Liechtenstein en Zuid-Tirol (exkursionsflora) zag ik er nog niet tussenstaan: https://www.zobodat.at/pdf/BZS_SBEF03_0001-1392.pdf
groeten,
Paul