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The following is a repository of resources to aid participants. Always use reliable sources in writing articles, and remember to cite them. Wikipedia policies and the Manual of Style should be consulted when in doubt.

1 Article structure
2 Templates
- 2.1 Infoboxes
- 2.2 Templates
3 Wiki Resources
4 Websites
- 4.1 Online searchable flora databases by country or region
5 To do
- 5.1 Stubs

[edit] Article structure

See also: Plant article template

Use the format of any one of our featured articles for inspiration on how to write a good plant-related article.

[edit] Templates

[edit] Infoboxes

{{Taxobox}} - see documentation at Wikipedia:Taxobox usage
{{Infobox Scientist}} for articles on botanists.
{{Infobox Cultivar}} for cultivars, hybrid or otherwise. See this template's instructions for use in articles.

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Citations of generic sources including website, book, journal, thesis & dissertation, conferences reports, encyclopedia and more.
{{WikiProject Plants}} for use on talk pages for project assessment.
{{Botanist}} for use in botanist-related articles
{{expert-subject}} ({{expert-subject|Plants}}) for use in plants articles needing expert attention
{{ITIS}} for use in plant articles For example: Arum maculatum - {{ITIS | ID = 185363 | taxon = ''Arum maculatum'' | year = 2006 | date = September 25}}
{{Missing species}} for find information about plant articles

{{User WikiProject Plants}} to identify editors who are members of WikiProject Plants
{{InvitePlants}} for invitation to join this WikiProject
{{WikiProject_Plant_Collaboration}} to list on collaboration page
{{Collab-plant}} to update current collaboration

[edit] Wiki Resources

[edit] Websites

Angiosperm Phylogeny Group (2003). An update of the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group classification for the orders and families of flowering plants: APG II. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society, 141, 399-436. available here : Available online. Probably now authoritative source for flowering plants at family level and above but already out of date for some groups; see next reference for more up-to-date information based on research since 2003.
Angiosperm Phylogeny Website : incorporates the latest taxonomic research; continuously updated.
Accepted names and synonyms of taxa from volume 24 of the Flora of North America (Poaceae and relatives)
The TROPICOS database is searchable by species, and where this is available, will give the accepted classification, and the degree to which it is accepted. Also lists authors, synonyms and homonyms. Far from complete.
Vascular Plant Families - a systematic and alphabetical index of the non-flowering and the flowering plant families with the Cronquist sytem and the phylogenetic system of Judd et al. (2002) (i.e. APG)
USDA/NRCS PLANTS Database - Not complete, but nice. Resource for some PD images, although not all are PD. Use Template:PLANTSDB to label images. Common names used are usually only common in the USA and may not be used worldwide.
L. Watson and M.J. Dallwitz (1992 onwards). The families of flowering plants: descriptions, illustrations, identification, information retrieval. http://delta-intkey.com - Unique resource, updated to about 1998 (note that especially the lists of genera are outdated) - includes classifications of Cronquist; Dahlgren; Dahlgren, Clifford and Yeo; and APG (i.e. APG I, of 1998)
International Plant Names Index (IPNI)
IPNI, authors search Note that the author database is separate from the plant name databases: the author database is authoritative. The plant name databases are "as is" and should be used as a search aid (invaluable as such) rather than as any kind of authority.
Forestry Images alot of images of plants released under creative commons 3.0.
USDA GRIN Taxonomy for Plants
Gymnosperm Database - very good coverage of gymnosperms
HortiPlex Plant Database - Searchable by common or scientific name. Submitted by gardeners- may not be in line with current taxonomy.
ILDIS (International Legume Database & Information Service) A database of legume taxonomy, includes synonyms and accepted names, common names and detailed bibliographies for many species.

Likewise, the following sites can help find taxonomic authors and abbreviations:

[edit] Online searchable flora databases by country or region

Africa

African Flowering Plants Database

Australia

Australian National Botanic Gardens. Search APNI (HTML). Australian Plant Name Index. Centre for Plant Biodiversity Research.
Electronic Flora of South Australia (eFloraSA)
National Herbarium of New South Wales. Search PlantNET (HTML). New South Wales FloraOnline. Royal Botanic Gardens, Sydney.
Western Australian flora (FloraBase)
What’s Its Name? (a concise database of plant names & name changes for Australia)

Ecuador

Catalogue of the Vascular Plants of Ecuador

Europe

Flora Europaea (Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh)

New Zealand

Landcare Research. Search Flora of New Zealand Series (HTML). New Zealand Plant Names Database. Landcare Research Allan Herbarium and New Zealand Plant Names Database.