Subject Guide - Botany and Horticulture Library
Botanical Libraries in the United States
- Botany Libraries at Harvard University Herbaria
- National Agricultural Library (United States Department of Agriculture)
- Peter H. Raven Library (Missouri Botanical Garden)
- LuEsther T. Mertz Library (New York Botanical Garden)
- Library of the Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University
- Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation
- Botanical Research Institute of Texas
- Library at Field Museum (Chicago, Illinois)
- Library (The Huntington Library, Art Collections and Botanical Garden, San Marino, California)
- Libraries (University of California and Jepson Herbaria)
Additional Botanical Information Sources (free access)
- Biodiversity Heritage Library
- Taxonomic Literature (TL-2)
- Botanico-Periodicum-Huntianum (BPH Online)
- The Field Book Project (Smithsonian, National Museum of Natural History)
- PLANTS Database (Natural Resources Conservation Service, USDA)
- Botanical Links from the Department of Botany, Smithsonian Institution)
- JSTOR Global Plants (some free access/subscription database)
- LINNAEUS Link
- Tropicos (Missouri Botanical Garden)
- The Plant List (Several Collaborators Worldwide--see website)
- International Plant Names Index (IPNI)
Horticultural Libraries in the United States
- Brooklyn Botanic Garden (New York City)
- Lenhardt Library (Chicago Botanic Garden)
- Helen Fowler Library (Denver Botanic Garden)
- Schilling Library (Desert Botanical Garden)
- Montgomery Library (Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden)
- Herb Society of America Library
- Lora M. Robins Library (Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden, Richmond, Virginia)
- Longwood Gardens
- Library (Los Angeles County Arboretum and Botanic Garden)
- Andersen Horticultural Library (Minnesota)
- Sterling Morton Library (Morton Arboretum, Illinois)
- Library (National Tropical Botanical Garden, Hawaii)
- PHS McLean Library (Pennsylvania Horticultural Society)
- Helen Crocker Russell Library of Horticulture (San Francisco Botanical Garden)
- Elisabeth C. Miller Library (University of Washington Botanic Gardens, Seattle, Washington)
Additional Horticultural Information Sources
- Seed and Nursery Catalogs (New York Botanical Garden)
- Seed and Nursery Catalogs (Smithsonian Libraries)
- A short history of the Seed and Nursery Catalogue in Europe and U.S. (Oregon State University)
- Cultivar Checklists for Ornamental Plants
- Cultural Landscape Foundation (Pioneers of Landscape Design)
- North American Native Plant Society
- USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map (2012)
- AHS Plant Heat Zone Map
- Seed Savers Exchange (heirloom seeds)
- Garden Club of America
- Timeline of American Garden History (Smithsonian Gardens)
New Book list from this library
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Smithsonian Libraries is a proud institutional member of the Council on Botanical and Horticultural Libraries (CBHL)