Seed ID References

Electronical Tools

• ASIS Arable Seed Identification System

  Publication Title: ASIS Arable Seed Identification System
  Author(s): The James Hutton Institute
  Language: English

• Digital Plant Atlas

  Publication Title: Digital Plant Atlas
  Author(s): Digital Plant Atlas - RUG & DAI
  Language: English
• PlantSearch

  Publication Title: Botanic garden conservation international
  Author(s): The James Hutton Institute
  Language: English
  Additionals: Photo of seeds

• Seed ID Workshop, CFAES

  Publication Title: CFAES Seed ID Workshop
  Author(s): Department of Horticulture and Crop Science The Ohio State University
  Language: English

• Drawings of seeds, Miliza Tischler

  Publication Title: Semina gezeichnet von M.Tischler
  Author(s): Miliza Tischler
  Language: German
  Year of Publication: 2002
  Additionals: Seed drawing with hand written note

• Federal Noxious Weed Disseminules of the United States, USDA

  Publication Title: Federal Noxious Weed Disseminules of the United States
  Author(s): United States Department of Agriculture (USDA)
  Language: English

• Fruit and seed family ID, USDA

  Publication Title: Fruit and Seed Family ID
  Author(s): United States Department of Agriculture (USDA)
  Language: English
  Additionals: Photos and fact sheeds on fruits and seeds

• Key for seed identification (I.D.SEED®)

  Language: English
  Web: https://www.geves.fr/tools/i-d-seed/
  Additionals: Needs registration

• Seed Identification Guide®, ISMA

  Publication Title: Seed Identification Guide®
  Author(s): International Seed Morphology Association (ISMA)
  Language: English
  Additionals: Seed photos including key for determination 

• Seed images amongst other information

  Language: English
  Web: https://www.seedimages.com/
  Additionals: Subscription fee

• Seed images amongst other information

  Language: English
  Web: https://plantatlas.eu/repository
  Additionals: Links work well, very useful

• Seed images from ISTA PT s "other seeds"

  Language: English
  Web: https://www.seedtest.org/en/proficiency-tests/standard-pt-results.html
  Additionals: Photos of the ISTA PT rounds

• Seeds of cultivated flowers

  Author(s): Larsen A.
  Year of Publication: 1996
  Language: English
  Web: https://frontrangeseedanalysts.weebly.com/flower-seed-images-frsa-1995.html
  Additionals: Link works well, for flower seeds only

• Seeds of South Australia

  Language: English
  Web: https://spapps.environment.sa.gov.au/SeedsOfSA/home.html
  Additionals: Link works well, good resolution seed pictures of 197 species

• Seeds USID

  Language: English
  Web: https://www.discoverlife.org/mp/20q?guide=Seeds_USID

• Tropical plants/seeds

  Language: English
  Web: https://www.tropicalforages.info/text/entities/index.htm
  Additionals: Photos and description of tropical of seeds and plants

• U.S. National Plant Germplasm System (CBO)

  Language: English
  Web: https://npgsweb.ars-grin.gov/gringlobal/taxon/taxonomysearch

• Weed seeds USDA

  Language: English
  Web: https://idtools.org/id/weed-tool/key/index.htm
  Additionals: Photos and keys in general and for grass species

• Weed Seed Identification

  Author(s): ICAR Directorate of weed research
  Language: English
  Web: https://dwr.icar.gov.in/WeedSeed_test.aspx
  Additionals: Prescription of characters, photos of seeds, seedlings and plants

• Key for seed determination

  Publication Title: Seeds Handbook for Agriculture, Horticulture and Forestry, with a key for the identification of the important agricultural seeds
  Author(s): W. Brouwer, A. Staehlin
  Language: English
  Additionals: Translated for the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the National Science Foundation, Washington D.C. by the Al-Ahram Center for Scientific Translations

• e-Floras

  Publication Title: e-Floras
  Year of Publication: 1993
  Language: English
  Additionals: Available also as a book

• Flower seeds

  Publication Title: Flower seeds
  Author(s): McDonald MB, Kwong F.J.
  Year of Publication: 2005
  Language: English
  Additionals: Available also as a book

• Fruits and Seeds of Genera in the subfamily Faboideae

  Publication Title: Fruits and Seeds of Genera in the subfamily Faboideae (Fabaceae) 
  Author(s): Kirkbride J.H. jr., Gunn C. R., Weitzman A.L.
  Year of Publication: 2003
  Language: English

• Fruits and Seeds of Genera in the subfamily Mimosoideae

  Publication Title: Fruits and Seeds of Genera in the subfamily Mimosoideae (Fabaceae)
  Author(s): R. Gunn
  Year of Publication: 1984
  Language: English

• Seed Identification of Eight Urochloa Species

  Publication Title: Seed Identification of Eight Urochloa (= Brachiaria) Species (Cultivated or Weed)
  Author(s): Groth D.
  Year of Publication: 2021
  Language: English

• Seed Illustrations, Photographs of forage seeds and their impurities

  Publication Title: Seed Illustrations, Photographs of forage seeds and their impurities
  Author(s): Hillmann F.H., Henry H.H.
  Year of Publication: 1935
  Language: English

• Seeds of wild plants in Japan

  Publication Title: Seeds of wild plants in Japan
  Author(s): Shiday Nakayama
  Year of Publication: 1996
  Language: English

• Seed ID woody plants

  Publication Title: The woody plants seed manual
  Author(s): Bonner F, Karrfalt R.
  Year of Publication: 2008
  Language: English
  Additionals: Also as book available

• The reference collection of Bredemann and Nieser from Hamburg

  Publication Title: The reference collection of Bredemann and Nieser from Hamburg​​​​​​​
  Author(s): University of Hamburg Collections
  Language: German