Map Legend

Missouri Botanical Garden Web Server

This legend explains the Map of the Missouri Botanical Garden's Web Server. The map is divided into five colors, each of which represents a different type of content. Within each color group, each cell represents a subdivision of that content type.


  • Red represents the latest information about this site.
    • What's New Online contains a chronological listing of new features on this Website.
  • Green represents the public garden and public activities.
    • Botanical Conferences provides information about conferences and meetings held at the Missouri Botanical Garden, including the annual Systematics Symposium and the forthcoming International Botanical Congress.
    • Virtual Tours provides a quick tour through the major areas of the Garden, including landmark buildings and statues, as well as major gardens, including the Kemper Center for Home Gardening and Seiwa-en--the Japanese Garden.
    • Calendar of Events lists events for the current year, organized by month.
    • Information Desk provides basic information about the Garden's location, hours, and admission, job and volunteer opportunities,
    • Plants in Bloom is a weekly (in season) listing of plants currently blooming, plus an archive of weekly information from 1996. Information is organized in summary form (At a Glance) and in Detail.
    • Reading Room is a gateway to the Garden's online books and publications. These are full-text documents to be read online. Other book-related sections are the library catalog for the Research Division's botanical library (see Library below) and the catalog of books for sale through the Research Division's Department of Scientific Publications (see Scientific Bookstore below).
    • Image Galleries are displays of electronic images of plants and Garden staff. Each image is presented as a thumbnail with a caption; each thumbnail links to a larger version of the same image.
  • Yellow represents the Garden's research activities, which span the globe.
    • North America is the home page for the Flora of North America project.
    • Mesoamerica is the home page for research activities that occur within the area from the Yucatán peninsula southward to the Colombian border.
    • South America is the home page for research activities that occur within the continent of South America.
    • Herbarium is the home page for the Research Division's herbarium, one of the world's largest collections of dried and pressed plant specimens. This page contains a link to w3TROPICOS, the Web interface to the Garden's botanical database with over 1,000,000 specimen records.
    • Scientific Bookstore is the online catalog for the Research Division's Department of Scientific Publications, with dozens of botanial books and journals for sale. An order form is available for printing, or books may be ordered via email. Other book-related sections are the library catalog for the Research Division's botanical library (see Library below) and the Garden's collection of full-text electronic books (see Reading Room above).
    • Library is the home page for the Research Division's botanical Library, with links to the catalog system and to other information about the library.
    • Research Home contains links to all research activities and basic information about the Garden's botanical research program.
    • Global contains links to research projects that are not constrained to particular geographic regions. These include Botanical Databasing, Applied Research, DNA Banking, Moss Databases, and the w3TROPICOS system.
    • Africa is the home page for research activities that occur within Africa and Madagascar.
    • Asia is the home page for research activities that occur within the continent of Asia.
  • Blue represents the Garden's Educational programs and links to information about the programs themselves, as well as to content for students and teachers.
  • Orange represents the Garden's Horticultural programs and links to all of the horticultural displays and information available online.

Alan V. Tucker
1 February 1997