Plant websites

[David Pilling]

I got this message today. Interesting for the plants, also as a comparison to the PBS wiki.

"I run 3 homepages which combine a botanical key with pictures. My aim is to describe the Flora of Germany (www.flora-de.de), the ornamental plants of Germany (www.zierpflanzenflora.de) and the Flora of the Alps and the Mediterranean from Greece to Portugal (www.mittelmeerflora.de)."

[Robert_Parks]

That's pretty ambitious!

[David Pilling]

Individuals can do a lot. This is an example for the UK:

https://wildflowerfinder.org.uk/

I suspect he went out hiking every week with a camera.

[Martin Bohnet]

I know and use Blumeninschwaben.de (the one he tries to rebrand to flora-de for quite a while now. google doesn't follow )  and mittelmeerflora.de for several years now, both are good sites with very good keys and descriptions. The Germany one is covering a good portion of the flora - with Mittelmeerflora I'm not competent enough to judge the bandwith. I think I've seen Zierpflanzenflora for the first time today, but I think he's totally in over his head with that one.

So: What's the idea, why did he contact us?

[Diane Whitehead]

What a well-designed site the UK one is!  Everything right there.

Interesting information about more than just plants, too.  Like how butterfly wings are pigmented.

[David Pilling]

So: What's the idea, why did he contact us?

He wanted to use some of my photos from the PBS wiki, of ranuculus asiaticus:

http://www.mittelmeerflora.de/Zweikeim/Ranunculaceae/ranu_asia.htm#Ranunculus%20asiaticus

which is not a particularly interesting fact.