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

2016

Smithsonian Libraries is a proud institutional member of the Council on Botanical and Horticultural Libraries (CBHL)