Resources to Start Learning Local Plants

green-mystic:

• USDA Plant Catalog – search by region, state and a number of categories. Actually this whole site is really good.
• Search in Google “[your state]” and “DA noxious weeds.”
• Thumb through wild plant guides for free on Google Books.
• There’s also the Native Plants Database, searchable by scientific name, region, etc.
• A number of universities have agricultural, landscaping and botanical sites where you can search for information specific to the region. Check out the sites of your local universities.
• Erowid allows you to cross reference entheogenic/drug information about plants.
• The very neat database Plants for a Future documents edible and medicinal plants specifically.
• The upper 500s, specifically the 580s in the library is the botanical section.

Be smart, be safe and enjoy!