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Botany Books
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The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 182 times as botany)
avg rating 4.06 — 60,354 ratings — published 2001
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants (Hardcover)
by (shelved 145 times as botany)
avg rating 4.50 — 186,273 ratings — published 2013
The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate: Discoveries from a Secret World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 131 times as botany)
avg rating 4.06 — 92,222 ratings — published 2015
Botany in a Day: The Patterns Method of Plant Identification (Paperback)
by (shelved 102 times as botany)
avg rating 4.46 — 1,313 ratings — published 1998
The Signature of All Things (Hardcover)
by (shelved 91 times as botany)
avg rating 3.88 — 127,188 ratings — published 2013
Wicked Plants: The Weed That Killed Lincoln's Mother and Other Botanical Atrocities (Hardcover)
by (shelved 81 times as botany)
avg rating 3.82 — 11,346 ratings — published 2009
Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses (Paperback)
by (shelved 75 times as botany)
avg rating 4.37 — 22,520 ratings — published 2003
The Drunken Botanist: The Plants That Create the World's Great Drinks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 71 times as botany)
avg rating 4.02 — 10,865 ratings — published 2013
Botany for Gardeners (Paperback)
by (shelved 65 times as botany)
avg rating 4.22 — 1,452 ratings — published 1990
The Light Eaters: How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth (Hardcover)
by (shelved 57 times as botany)
avg rating 4.25 — 11,481 ratings — published 2024
Lab Girl (Hardcover)
by (shelved 57 times as botany)
avg rating 3.98 — 73,003 ratings — published 2016
Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures (Hardcover)
by (shelved 55 times as botany)
avg rating 4.31 — 54,645 ratings — published 2020
The Triumph of Seeds: How Grains, Nuts, Kernels, Pulses, and Pips Conquered the Plant Kingdom and Shaped Human History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 51 times as botany)
avg rating 4.10 — 3,145 ratings — published 2015
What a Plant Knows: A Field Guide to the Senses (Hardcover)
by (shelved 48 times as botany)
avg rating 4.04 — 4,121 ratings — published 2012
Plant Identification Terminology: An Illustrated Glossary (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as botany)
avg rating 4.53 — 311 ratings — published 1994
The Orchid Thief (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as botany)
avg rating 3.66 — 22,890 ratings — published 1998
This Is Your Mind on Plants (Hardcover)
by (shelved 34 times as botany)
avg rating 3.87 — 35,097 ratings — published 2021
The Cabaret of Plants: Forty Thousand Years of Plant Life and the Human Imagination (Hardcover)
by (shelved 33 times as botany)
avg rating 3.75 — 982 ratings — published 2016
Weeds: How Vagabond Plants Gatecrashed Civilisation and Changed the Way We Think About Nature (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 32 times as botany)
avg rating 3.82 — 978 ratings — published 2010
The Private Life of Plants (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as botany)
avg rating 4.44 — 731 ratings — published 1994
Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as botany)
avg rating 4.20 — 17,931 ratings — published 2021
The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as botany)
avg rating 4.26 — 72,620 ratings — published 2024
The Tree: A Natural History of What Trees Are, How They Live & Why They Matter (Hardcover)
by (shelved 29 times as botany)
avg rating 3.95 — 2,089 ratings — published 2005
The Secret Life of Plants: A Fascinating Account of the Physical, Emotional and Spiritual Relations Between Plants and Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as botany)
avg rating 3.96 — 3,400 ratings — published 1973
Fifty Plants that Changed the Course of History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as botany)
avg rating 3.67 — 818 ratings — published 2010
The Brother Gardeners: Botany, Empire and the Birth of an Obsession (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as botany)
avg rating 4.22 — 1,303 ratings — published 2008
Brave the Wild River: The Untold Story of Two Women Who Mapped the Botany of the Grand Canyon (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as botany)
avg rating 4.17 — 6,410 ratings — published 2023
Latin for Gardeners: Over 3,000 Plant Names Explained and Explored (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as botany)
avg rating 4.26 — 239 ratings — published 2012
The Emerald Planet: How Plants Changed Earth's History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as botany)
avg rating 4.06 — 663 ratings — published 2007
Plants of the Pacific Northwest Coast: Washington, Oregon, British Columbia and Alaska (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as botany)
avg rating 4.58 — 1,142 ratings — published 1994
A Textbook of Botany (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as botany)
avg rating 4.01 — 87 ratings — published
Botanicum (Welcome to the Museum)
by (shelved 24 times as botany)
avg rating 4.59 — 1,140 ratings — published 2016
The Overstory (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as botany)
avg rating 4.11 — 206,661 ratings — published 2018
The Revolutionary Genius of Plants: A New Understanding of Plant Intelligence and Behavior (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as botany)
avg rating 4.11 — 2,774 ratings — published 2017
A Text Book of Botany (ebook)
by (shelved 23 times as botany)
avg rating 3.72 — 264 ratings — published 2009
Practical Botany for Gardeners: Over 3,000 Botanical Terms Explained and Explored (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as botany)
avg rating 4.37 — 196 ratings — published 2013
Biology of Plants (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as botany)
avg rating 4.10 — 354 ratings — published 1976
The Big, Bad Book of Botany: The World's Most Fascinating Flora – An Entertaining Encyclopedia from Magic Mushrooms to Toxic Teas (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as botany)
avg rating 3.73 — 506 ratings — published
Seeing Trees: Discover the Extraordinary Secrets of Everyday Trees (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as botany)
avg rating 4.26 — 497 ratings — published 2011
Second Nature: A Gardener's Education (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as botany)
avg rating 3.93 — 9,225 ratings — published 1991
The Plant Messiah: Adventures in Search of the World's Rarest Species (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as botany)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,432 ratings — published 2018
Botany Illustrated: Introduction to Plants, Major Groups, Flowering Plant Families (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as botany)
avg rating 4.34 — 50 ratings — published 1984
The Wild Trees: A Story of Passion and Daring (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as botany)
avg rating 4.12 — 9,277 ratings — published 2007
Bringing Nature Home: How Native Plants Sustain Wildlife in Our Gardens (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as botany)
avg rating 4.45 — 3,837 ratings — published 2007
Mycelium Running: How Mushrooms Can Help Save the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as botany)
avg rating 4.40 — 3,402 ratings — published 2005
Flora: The Definitive Visual Guide to the Plant Kingdom (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as botany)
avg rating 4.69 — 223 ratings — published
The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as botany)
avg rating 4.33 — 30,882 ratings — published 2015
Plant Systematics (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as botany)
avg rating 4.29 — 78 ratings — published 2005
Botany for the Artist: An Inspirational Guide to Drawing Plants (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as botany)
avg rating 4.48 — 569 ratings — published 2010
Botany: An Introduction to Plant Biology (Fourth Edition)
by (shelved 16 times as botany)
avg rating 4.02 — 143 ratings — published 1991
“Aboveground portions of a plant represent only “the tip of an iceberg.”
― Plant Physiology by Lincoln Taiz
― Plant Physiology by Lincoln Taiz
“I've never been more impressed with your ability to manage difficult people."
Helen pried a pale yellow flower open to find the pollen-tipped rod within. "If living in a house of Ravenels hasn't been adequate preparation, I can't fathom what would be." Using a toothpick, she collected grains of pollen and applied them to the nectar, which was hidden beneath a tiny flap of the stigma. Her hands were adept from years of practice.”
― Cold-Hearted Rake
Helen pried a pale yellow flower open to find the pollen-tipped rod within. "If living in a house of Ravenels hasn't been adequate preparation, I can't fathom what would be." Using a toothpick, she collected grains of pollen and applied them to the nectar, which was hidden beneath a tiny flap of the stigma. Her hands were adept from years of practice.”
― Cold-Hearted Rake
