Links I like.

Last updated Dec2016.

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.
• David Winston
  with old herbal texts.
• Kiva Rose
  exquisite writings on herbs and their actions.
  Also, the very good Plant Healer Magazine, a must for practising herbalists. (I get a kickback if you subscribe using that link).
• Michigan herbalist Jim McDonald
  interesting in-depth articles about a few plants, and a very good sorted links page.
• Rosalee de la Foret
  a lot of good articles, and the Herbal Blogroll.
• Katja Swift and Ryn Midura
  with their CommonWealth Center for Holistic Herbalism school.
  Very interesting articles, and a great list of linked articles.
• 7song
  the Northeast School of Botanical Medicine
  with articles and photos.
• Matthew Wood
  some interesting herbal articles.
• Robin Rose Bennett
  some good herbal articles.
• Howie Brounstein
  a few interesting articles.
• Rosemary Gladstar
  a handful of interesting articles, and the sagemountain school.
• Kary Sanders
  also, the radio show The Herbal Highway.
• American Herbalist's Guild
  a lot of conference recordings online, if you're a member. And why would you not be one?
• Todd Caldecott
  excellent in-depth articles on a variety of problems, from an Ayurvedic point of view.
• Alan Tillotson
  excellent in-depth articles on a variety of Ayurvedic herbs.

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)

Databases

• Jim Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
• Dan Moerman's Native American Ethnobotany Database
• The herbmed database, with links to research and things

Other

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

Good Materia Medicas

• Old herbal texts on other sites.
• The Raintree Tropical Plant Database
• Christine Haughton's files

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 French plant names, try Tela Botanica.
• For plants found in the wild in Sweden, try Den Virtuella Floran; if you're even close to being able to understand Swedish go have a look.
• 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.