Resources

LSU Hill Memorial Library - McIlhenny Natural History Collection, QK41 .P2 OVER

From the website : "Here at he Louisiana State University Herbarium we study biodiversity--green plants, lichens, and fungi-- from the state of Louisiana and around the world. We maintain a permanent reference collection within our herbarium that documents the historical distribution and composition of the local flora. We provide botanical information to researchers and the general public via specimen and web-based interfaces. We specialize in research on native and introduced plants and fungi, their ecology, and evolution."

From the website: "The PLANTS Database provides standardized information about the vascular plants, mosses, liverworts, hornworts, and lichens of the U.S. and its territories. It includes names, plant symbols, checklists, distributional data, species abstracts, characteristics, images, crop information, automated tools, onward Web links, and references."