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Web Sites Helping with
PLANT & ANIMAL
IDENTIFICATION

At this time, in most but not all cases, fieldguides and technical keys with printed pages are still the best tools most of us have for identifying plants and animals in our backyards.

However, computers are getting smaller and more portable all the time, wireless connection is becoming more common, and new Web sites are appearing all the time with illustrations of thousands of organisms. Also, some sites use a technical-key approach so you can "key out" organisms over the Internet. You might enjoy checking out the following:

shortcuts to our list of other identification sites:


WILDFLOWERS:

 

GRASSES & SEDGES:

PARASITIC PLANTS:

WETLAND PLANTS:

TREES & BUSHES:

CULTIVATED PLANTS:

'WEEDS':

MISCELLANEOUS PLANTS:

FUNGI:

BIRDS:

INSECTS:

REPTILES & AMPHIBIANS:

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