Last updated Apr2025.
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, and a very good sorted links page. - Rosalee de la Foret
- 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. - Rosemary Gladstar
a handful of interesting articles, and the sagemountain school. - Todd Caldecott
excellent in-depth articles on a variety of problems, from an Ayurvedic point of view.
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
Other
- The Herb Society of America
- The UK Herb Society, with a good forum
- Tapes of herbal conferences
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 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.