• Diseases of Native Plants
  Dr. Donald Gardner of the UH Manoa Botany Departament provides links to a number of his articles and reports on diseases of some of Hawaii's native plants including koa, 'a'ali'i, mamane, 'ohelo, and several more. Most of the reports include color images of disease symptoms and/or organisms.

• Flora of the Hawaiian Islands
  From the Department of Systematic Biology at the Smithsonian Institution, this site provides searchable access to a checklist of Hawaiian vascular plants as well as a searchable image database. It also contains a pdf file of the supplement to the Manual of the Flowering Plants of Hawaii which details taxonomic changes since the publication of the Manual. There is also a link to the Flora of the Marquesas produced by the same Department.

• Hawaiian Native Plant Genera
  By Dr. Gerald Carr of the UH Manoa Botany Department, this is an extensive collection of color images of hundreds of native plant species; arranged by botanical name.

• Hawaii's Endangered and Threatened Species Web Site
  Part of the Hawaii Biological Survey Web site, this portion gives lists of extinct, endangered and threatened, and proposed and candidate species.

• Ho`olono: celebrating native Hawaiian plants and animals through Hawaiian mele (songs), oli (chants), hula
  Full text in Hawaiiand and English of mele and oli about native Hawaiian plants; includes song samples for many of the them. Links to information about recordings for each entry.

• How to Plant a Native Hawaiian Garden: An On-Line Handbook
  Developed by the State of Hawaii Office of Environmental Quality Control, this site is designed to be a handbook for educators, administrators, and others who are interesting in developing a native garden on their school grounds. The site covers a variety of topics pertinent to this type of project, but also contains individual pages for 34 indigeous, endemic, and Polynesian introduced plants.

• Native and Introduced Hawaiian Plants
  This page is part of Professor Priscilla Millen's Web site for the course "Plants in the Hawaiian Environment" (Botany 130) taught at Leeward Community College. This page has photos of a few native plants and information and images of 24 Polynesian introduced plants.

• Native Hawaiian Gardens
  This Web site focuses on plants native to Hawai'i's dry lowland areas. It includes cultural information with images for 11 native plants. Produced by Burt Lum.

• Hawaiian Native Plant Genera
  By Dr. Gerald Carr of the UH Manoa Botany Department, this is an extensive collection of color images of hundreds of native plant species; arranged by botanical name.

• Native Plants Used as Medicine In Hawaii
  Full text of Beatrice Krauss' 1979 publication. Published on the Web by Kapi'olani Community College Library with permission from Lyon Arboretum. The original line drawings have been replaced by photographs.

• Seed Storage Practices for Native Hawaiian Plants
  This on-line manual includes a large table giving seed storage conditions and germination data on several hundred plant species; by Alvin Yoshinaga and the Hawaii Conservation Alliance.

• Threatened and Endangered Plants in the Hawaiian and Pacific Islands
  U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service summaries of recovery plans for a number of endangered Hawaiian plant species and communities.

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