CUBIC - Cornell University Botanical Image Collection


TOTAL IMAGES IN CUBIC DATABASE: 325743

TOTAL GENERA IN CUBIC DATABASE: 7216

TOTAL BINOMIALS IN CUBIC DATABASE: 32475

CUBIC (Cornell University Botanical Image Collection) is a cooperative database and webserver for botanical images. The original database system was called Plantsystematics.org, begun by Kevin Nixon in the early 2000s, and a second system was begun by Daniel Nickrent as Phytoimages a few years later, originally hosted at Southern Illinois University. In 2023, the two were combined as the Cornell Herbarium site CUBIC. CUBIC is actively expanding and currently has ca. 230,000 images. We include links below to the legacy sites for Plantsystematics.org and Phytoimages.

CUBIC has a large collection of plant images, with a concentration in angiosperms, ferns, lycophytes and bryophytes. We also have numerous images of lichens, fungi and fungoids, and animals, including insects and vertebrates. You may access and navigate these by family through the links below.

BY FAMILY LINKS: Note that the "dicot" by families link below is in the traditional since, and does not represent a monophyletic group. It is merely for convenience in navigation.

AND SEARCHES: For some combinations of search fields, CUBIC will automatically perform an "and" search. For example, you may search TAXON and KEYWORD by just entering terms in those two fields (e.g., Quercus and catkin).

Note that NOT ALL COMBINATIONS of fields will perform an "and" search. THREE-WAY searches are not supported.

You may also continue to utilize Plantsystematics.org or PhytoImages (see icon/links below). Eventually, all functions in those two sites will be incorporated into CUBIC.

TAXON  COUNTRY STATE/PROV. COUNTY/MUN. LOCALITY COLLECTOR COLLECTION NUMBER OWNER CAPTION/KEYWORD