A Guide to Better Pastures
for the Tropics and Subtropics
[Details of tropical and sub-tropical grass and legume species
from a book by L.R.Humphreys and I.J.Partridge. Species also subdivided
according to rainfall requirements]
Animal
Feed Resources Information System
[search under Fodder, Grass and Legumes]
Australian National Botanic
Gardens homepage
California Alfalfa and
Forages
California Rangelands
[Native perennial and annual grass species - search Rangeland
Vegetation]
Canadian
Ecosystem and Plants (species details photo and brief description)
CIAT Forages Homepage
CIAT Tropical Forage
Database/Forrajes Tropicales Base de Datos
(To order a copy see : www.ciat.cgiar.org/forrajes/index.htm
and www.ciat.cgiar.org/catalogue/index.htm)
Common Range plants of Texas
Comparative
characteristics of forage species in Montana
Crop-Net
Forage databases in UK
Databases
and information systems
Department
of Agriculture - Western Australia
ECOPORT
FAO - Ecocrop
[contains various grasses and legumes]
Forage databases in UK
Forage species
Forage-livestock
systems at Cornell
Funet
- database
[Species lists; A - Z]
Gramineae
Grass genera of the world
Grass
species list - Montana State University
Identifying pasture grasses
ILDIS = International Legume Database and
Information Service
Kew
- recent legume literature
Kew database - International Plant Names Index
(IPNI)
Legume web is a service to search
the ILDIS World Database of Legumes
Missouri
Botanical Garden - Listing of Plant Name Databases
Montana
State University [Good link for number of legumes]
New Stylosanthes guianensis
for Tropical Grasslands
New
York State - Forage crop recommendations
Noth
Dakota and Minnesota Range Plants
NSW Agriculture (Australia):
pasture planner - pasture species and varieties
Ohio State and Virginia Tech Plant Dictionary
Oklahoma forages - photos
Oklahoma forages
- photos of clovers
Oklahoma forages - photos
of grasses
Oregon State
University New Forage Information System
Oregon
State University: Forage species database
Oregon
State University: Forage image gallery
Pasturas
de America - Grasses and legumes
Pasture Species Identification
and Potential Adaptation
[Vanuatu Pasture Improvement
Project Tech. Bull. No.1]
Photos of grasses
and legumes
PROSEA - Plant Resources of South-East Asia
[Homepage - Includes information about the PROSEA databank, and
handbooks such as Prosea handbook No.4: 'Forages' http://www.bib.wau.nl/prosea/prosea4.html
which deals with forage plants for South East Asia].
Purdue
University Crop Index
[Crops are listed alphabetically by genus and common name, including
a large number of forage and fodder tree species].
Species database
Texas A & M Vascular
Plant Image Gallery
The International Plant Names Index
The Lotus Newsletter (I)
The Lotus Newsletter (II)
Tropical
forages
University of Kansas
Forage Facts Notebook
[info on grasses and legumes]
USDA plant database
Vicia
villosa - vetch
W3Tropicos
Winrock International
World grass
flora