Plants

Sites

Canterbury weed guide

A weed identification guide prepared by the Christchurch City Council.

Flora of New Zealand

The complete flora of New Zealand published by Landcare.

Gateway to NZ Fungi

Herbal Safety

Research findings related to herbal use including fact sheets that the deal with commonly used medicinal herbs and plants, such as ginseng, chamomile, pumpkin seeds, and St. John's Wort. The Herbal Safety site also contains information on recent medical studies that examine the effectiveness of such medicinal treatments. From the University of Texas at El Paso.

The Hidden Forest

Features a comprehensive photographic index of fungi (mushrooms and toadstools) as well as ferns, mosses, slime moulds, club mosses - found in the forests of New Zealand.

Māori Plant Use Database Ngā Tipu Whakoranga

Information on traditional uses by Māori of New Zealand native plants. From Landcare research.

National Vegetation Survey Databank

New Zealand fungi

Gateway to a wealth of information on fungi (and plant pathogenic bacteria) in New Zealand. From Landcare Research

New Zealand native orchid

New Zealand has over 140 species of Native Orchid. They possess small, delicate, exquisite flowers which come in a vast array of colours and forms. This site gives descriptions & photos of all the recognised species, along with details on where to find them

New Zealand Native Plants and Trees

Articles and links to nurseries, photos of native plants.

New Zealand Plant Conservation Network

Information about native plants and their conservation in New Zealand. The main focus for the network is the nationally threatened plants and plant communities that require conservation management for their continued survival. Includes a directory of threatened and uncommon plants of New Zealand

New Zealand's Virtual Mycota

An electronic, flora-like compilation of the fungi of New Zealand. The descriptions and images have been extracted from many different sources, but mostly scientific journals. These are supplemented by colour images of many of the fungi.

Plants National Database

The PLANTS Database provides standardized information about the vascular plants, mosses, liverworts, hornworts, and lichens of the U.S. and its territories.

Plant-SyNZ

This database focuses on New Zealand native plants and New Zealand native invertebrate herbivores (insects and mites). It includes naturalised and cultivated plants that host native herbivores and adventive and overseas invertebrate herbivores that feed on native plants. The Plant-SyNZT database will enable a user to search for and obtain a list of herbivores associated with a particular plant or search for and obtain a list of plants associated with a particular herbivore.

Weed Index

A-Z weed identifier from Environment Bay of Plenty. Designed to help you recognise and control weeds, this manual contains only weeds that occur in this area and only weeds which are a threat to environmental values or which they are obliged to control by statute.

Weedbusters

Weedbusters is a weeds awareness and education programme that aims to protect New Zealand's environment from the increasing weed problem.

Weeds in New Zealand

This website is to encourage teachers to use weeds as a learning context in their teaching, to encourage students to learn how weeds impact on New Zealand's unique environment and to apply their newly gained knowledge and skills to providing solutions to weed invasion in their own backyard or local reserve.

Weeds Newsletters

Landcare Research produces two newsletters about weeds: Wise up to Weeds! (published twice yearly) and What's New in Biological Control of Weeds? (published 4 times a year). The newsletters are published to keep clients, stakeholders, and research colleagues informed about progress towards developing sustainable biological control solutions for weed problems, and other research regarding the impacts of invasive weeds and the best way to deal with them.