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Featured Salvia Sites:
| This is an outstanding site from Robin Middleton of England, who is maintaining a greenhouse where he has one of the best European collections of Salvias. His web site has at present 200 images of Salvias, many not found in cultivation in the United States. You will need to have Java running on your computer to view the gallery. |
| This is an effort of the Botany
Department of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, initiated by Dr. Ken
Sytsma and Jay B. Walker. Its purpose is to cover research on the
molecular phylogenetics, evolution, and classification of Salvia and related
Mentheae. Besides having a checklist of Salvias based on Alziar's
work, there is a list of literature and chromosome numbers as well as DNA
work.
One of the results of the last few year's DNA work is the discovery that the genus Salvia is apparently polyphyletic in origin. That is, Salvias evolved from not one, but as many as three different ancesters. The species forming the three groups from these ancestors are referred to as clades for the purpose of the current studies. Bert Wilson is the master scholar
to go to for horticultural information and ecology of California sages.
He also grows most of them for sale and can explain how to use them and
other natives to restore native environments.
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Sites for Hummingbird Enthusiasts:
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Started by Dr. James V. Remsen of Louisiana State University's Museum of Natural Science, Humnet is an email bulletin board devoted primarily to disseminating information on hummingbirds and gardening for them in the Southeastern United States. Salvias, of course, are frequently discussed. Interested in the study of the pollination mechanism of Salvias and the interrelationships to hummingbirds? Here is a place to start. Go to the link for the JPG of her poster. Some others:
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Other Featured Sites:
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This site was started several years ago to catalog, display,
and popularize skullcaps for herbalists, botanists, students, and plant
enthusiasts. Topics covered include:
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the Allium Man Galleries, links and information on:
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| Ketzel
Levine's Talking Plants is the Web Page of NPR's Doyenne
of Dirt.
Reach her at: plants@npr.org |
| Marty's consistantly excellent photography of herbs and native American plants is such that random selections could be expected to win prizes in art shows. His well-developed sense of composition and light really captures the essence of his subjects. In addition to his photographic skills, he is an experienced herbalist who owns and directs the Southeastern Herbal School at Wake Forest. Contact Marty by e-mail or at 336-834-4143 by phone. |
Links to Nurseries:
Links to Botanical Gardens:
Links to Other Horticultural Organizations:
| California
Garden Clubs, Inc.
The Herb Society of America International Herb Association |
Herbarium & Flora Data Base Links:
Botanic Nomenclature and Data Base Convention Links:
| Dictionary
of Botanical Words (Botany.com)
Confused by some of the terms in my posts or on these pages? Check this on-line reference. Royal Botanic Garden at Kew Vascular Plant Families and Genera database: The source for learning the currently acceptable names for the Latin names of plants. Use this database to avoid the illegitimate and superfluous names that sustain inaccuracies and confusion. DELTA:
DEscription Language for TAxonomy
Organizing the taxonomy of the world's flora and fauna is an extremely complex task. The development of useable, let alone useful, botanic data bases requires an appropriate number of clearly defined search fields. Since botany has been the poor stepsister of the physical sciences until recent times, there is a lot of reorganization and redefinition needed before the current systems of terminology can be used for such projects. The sites listed above represent much of the effort to this end. Anyone seriously interested in the generation, publication, and compiling of botanical data will find these sites relevant to the usefulness of their work. I've included them in my site as an aid to visitors who wish to bring matters to my attention or who wish to explore the intensity of involvment required by this task. |
Other Botanic Data Bases
| Internet
Directory for Botany: Images
A compilation of amateur to academic image sites. Index Nominum Genericorum (ING), a collaborative project of the International Association for Plant Taxonomy (IAPT) and the Smithsonian Institution. The data base for access to information about generic names of plants. Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS), a partnership of U.S., Canadian, and Mexican agencies. National Biological Information Infrastructure (works with the National Invasive Species Council). Rock Garden Plants Database. A Czech database by Dr. Pavel Slaby with horticultural information on 10150 species and growing. It has a fairly good selection of Salvias, and there is a gallery of images. Dr. Fungus: A database in progress on all kinds of fungus. There is a large section on plant fungus. A separate page exists for files of downloadable slides in PowerPoint format. The plant section is so new that there are few entries at present (2/15/02). This web resource looks like a well-funded project that could become very useful in the future. Plants For A Future Database (University of Leeds) is still in progress. It does not have images, but has references, gives distribution in the wild and mentions the substrate (soil type, etc) where each species is found. There are 33 Salvias listed currently. SALVIAS: A global baseline database and plant ecoInformatics portal SALVIAS is a network of ecologists, conservation biologists, biogeographers, botanists and computer programmers interested in understanding large scale patterns of plant diversity. And a fun site for natural history
buffs:
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Utility Sites for Horticulturists and Plant Collectors
| Global
Gazetteer This is the
site to visit to discover plant collecting sites anywhere on the world's
land masses. Contour maps with some details are available.
For instance, canyons and stream paths are readily observable. Use
this with GPS data to research or record plant collection data. Google
Earth is not quite
as useful - so far.
World Weather Information Service Want to collect climatological information on the new rare Salvia or other plant in your collection, or for optimizing a field trip? This global web site presents OFFICIAL weather observations, weather forecasts and climatological information for selected cities supplied by National Meteorological & Hydrological Services (NMHSs) worldwide. APSnet - Plant Pathology Online, by the American Phytopathological Society. Want to know what that strange disease is troubling your rare Salvia? Here is a place to start. |
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