Last updated Sep2025.

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Herbalist sites

• Michael Moore
  Southwest School of Botanical Medicine
  with quality information on herbal medicine, including manuals, old herbal texts, and images.
• Paul Bergner
  North American Institute of Medical Herbalism
  Medical Herbalism, one of the very best periodicals for the herbalist.
• Michigan herbalist Jim McDonald
  interesting in-depth articles about a few plants.
• Rosalee de la Foret
• Katja Swift and Ryn Midura
  with their CommonWealth Center for Holistic Herbalism school.
  Very interesting articles.
• 7song
  the Northeast School of Botanical Medicine
  with articles and photos.
• Robin Rose Bennett
  some good herbal articles.

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Herbalist organizations:

• The American Herbalists Guild (AHG)
• The National Institute of Medical Herbalists (NIMH)
• The National Herbalists Association of Australia (NHAA)
• The Ontario Herbalists Association (OHA)
• The International Register of Consultant Herbalists and Homoeopaths (in the UK)
• The New Zealand Association of Medical Herbalists (NZAMH)

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Databases

• Jim Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
• Dan Moerman's Native American Ethnobotany Database

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Other

• The Herb Society of America
• The UK Herb Society, with a good forum
• Tapes of herbal conferences

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Botany

Need to find a new scientific name from an old book, or see which plants are actually identical nowadays?

• The GRIN taxonomy database.
• For plants found wild somewhere in the US, your best bet is the USDA Plants database.
• Also check The Plant List.
• For Finnish wild plants, there's Luontoportti.
• The Index Fungorum also covers lichens.
• Algaebase is an excellent site for algae.
• For Fabaceae, the best database is Ildis.

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