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 Triumph of Seeds: How Grains, Nuts, Kernels, Pulses, and Pips Conquered the Plant Kingdom and Shaped Human History
The Light Eaters: How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth
What a Plant Knows: A Field Guide to the Senses
Plant Identification Terminology: An Illustrated Glossary
Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall KimmererThe Hidden Life of Trees by Peter WohllebenThe Legend of the Indian Paintbrush by Tomie dePaolaThe Legend of the Bluebonnet by Tomie dePaolaThe Legend of the Poinsettia by Tomie dePaola
Flower and Plant lore
98 books — 13 voters

Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall KimmererWicked Plants by Amy  StewartIn the Shadow of Slavery by Judith A. CarneyGinseng Dreams by Kristin JohannsenPapyrus by John Gaudet
Ethnobotany
51 books — 13 voters

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

Aboveground portions of a plant represent only “the tip of an iceberg.
Lincoln Taiz; Eduardo Zeiger, Plant Physiology by Lincoln Taiz

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