Systematic Links
Direct links to systematic sites that may be useful in the course
* University of Wisconsin Wisflora
[University of Wisconsin Herbarium checklist of vascular plants in Wisconsin; complete with images, distributional maps, habitat, and synonomy]
[online key with beautiful images of Michigan's vascular flora including map distributions; up-to-date nomenclature except for names of some monocot families]
[A field guide type collection of photos and information about wild plants growing in Minnesota]
* Online Key to Wisconsin Asteraceae
[Robert Kowal's on-line key with hotlinks to species pages - this done on the UW Stevens Point website]
* Wisconsin - Green Bay Fern Key
[University of Wisconsin Green Bay's excellent key with pictures for Wisconsin ferns and relatives]
[online picture key of upper Midwest grasses - best resource for identifying grasses]
* Peter Stevens' Angiosperm Phylogeny Website
[up-to-date APG classification of angiosperms; navigate via "trees" with detailed descriptions of families and other clades]
* Tree of Life web project
[tree based description of relationships of all life; over 3,000 web pages for different groups]
* Joe Felsenstein's Phylogeny Programs Website
[links to nearly 200 different phylogenetic software packages]
[Current list of KEW recognized families and their genera - includes synonomy]
* Botanical Society of America
[Homepage for BSA with links to online verison of American Journal of Botany; student membership]
* American Society of Plant Taxonomists
[Homepage for ASPT - publisher of Systematic Botany; student membership]