Botany

The scientific study of plants.

The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate: Discoveries from a Secret World
Botany in a Day: The Patterns Method of Plant Identification
The Signature of All Things
Wicked Plants: The Weed That Killed Lincoln's Mother and Other Botanical Atrocities
Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses
The Drunken Botanist: The Plants That Create the World's Great Drinks
Botany for Gardeners
Lab Girl
Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures
The Light Eaters: How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth
The Triumph of Seeds: How Grains, Nuts, Kernels, Pulses, and Pips Conquered the Plant Kingdom and Shaped Human History
What a Plant Knows: A Field Guide to the Senses
Plant Identification Terminology: An Illustrated Glossary
Rats by Robert SullivanLily Pond by Hope RydenThe Irish Wildlife Book by Fergus O'GormanPaddy by R.D. LawrenceEager by Ben  Goldfarb
Natural History of Rodents
39 books — 8 voters

What Moves the Dead by T. KingfisherMexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-GarciaSorrowland by Rivers SolomonThe Beauty by Aliya WhiteleyRosewater by Tade Thompson
Fungus Fiction
50 books — 43 voters

The Language of Flowers by Odessa BegayFloriography by Jessica RouxA Victorian Flower Dictionary by Mandy KirkbyFloriography by Sally CoulthardWildflower Folklore by Laura C. Martin
Language of Flowers
12 books — 9 voters
The ABCs of California's Native Bees by Krystle HickmanWhen Mountain Lions Are Neighbors by Beth Pratt-BergstromGrowing California Native Plants by Marjorie G. SchmidtSecrets of the Oak Woodlands by Kate MarianchildThe California Native Landscape by Greg Rubin
California ecology
41 books — 8 voters

...the Vegetable World has a higher significance than either the education of man's intellect, or even the maintenance of animal life. With its sweet influences, man's heart, —his moral nature, is in intimate communion; and through them, God reveals himself to the soul in his most endearing attributes. By the teachings of the Vegetable World the tone of our moral being is affected in no small degree, and flowers are often interwoven with the web of human destiny. In a word, the heart of man is s ...more
Alphonso Wood, Poetry Of The Vegetable World: A Popular Exposition Of The Science Of Botany, And Its Relations To Man

The hallway leading to Botany is lined with cabinets full of dried plants laid out on acid-free paper. Today, I imagine them as a vertical garden, orchids and epiphytes dripping from the sides, a phantom scent of humid forest.
Virginia Hartman, The Marsh Queen

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