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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 180 times as botany)
avg rating 4.06 — 60,106 ratings — published 2001
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants (Hardcover)
by (shelved 140 times as botany)
avg rating 4.50 — 182,094 ratings — published 2013
The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate: Discoveries from a Secret World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 130 times as botany)
avg rating 4.06 — 91,031 ratings — published 2015
Botany in a Day: The Patterns Method of Plant Identification (Paperback)
by (shelved 101 times as botany)
avg rating 4.46 — 1,304 ratings — published 1998
The Signature of All Things (Hardcover)
by (shelved 91 times as botany)
avg rating 3.88 — 126,511 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 — 11,286 ratings — published 2009
Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses (Paperback)
by (shelved 71 times as botany)
avg rating 4.38 — 21,991 ratings — published 2003
The Drunken Botanist: The Plants That Create the World's Great Drinks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 70 times as botany)
avg rating 4.02 — 10,810 ratings — published 2013
Botany for Gardeners (Paperback)
by (shelved 64 times as botany)
avg rating 4.22 — 1,441 ratings — published 1990
Lab Girl (Hardcover)
by (shelved 57 times as botany)
avg rating 3.98 — 72,642 ratings — published 2016
The Light Eaters: How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth (Hardcover)
by (shelved 54 times as botany)
avg rating 4.25 — 10,601 ratings — published 2024
Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures (Hardcover)
by (shelved 53 times as botany)
avg rating 4.32 — 53,564 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 — 3,129 ratings — published 2015
What a Plant Knows: A Field Guide to the Senses (Hardcover)
by (shelved 47 times as botany)
avg rating 4.04 — 4,083 ratings — published 2012
Plant Identification Terminology: An Illustrated Glossary (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as botany)
avg rating 4.53 — 309 ratings — published 1994
This Is Your Mind on Plants (Hardcover)
by (shelved 35 times as botany)
avg rating 3.87 — 34,707 ratings — published 2021
The Orchid Thief (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as botany)
avg rating 3.66 — 22,650 ratings — published 1998
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 — 977 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 — 970 ratings — published 2010
The Private Life of Plants (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as botany)
avg rating 4.44 — 729 ratings — published 1994
The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as botany)
avg rating 4.27 — 68,208 ratings — published 2024
Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as botany)
avg rating 4.20 — 17,563 ratings — published 2021
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 — 2,077 ratings — published 2005
Fifty Plants that Changed the Course of History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as botany)
avg rating 3.68 — 813 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 — 1,291 ratings — published 2008
The Secret Life of Plants: A Fascinating Account of the Physical, Emotional and Spiritual Relations Between Plants and Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as botany)
avg rating 3.96 — 3,372 ratings — published 1973
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 4.18 — 6,190 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 — 659 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 — 1,141 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 — 1,135 ratings — published 2016
The Overstory (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as botany)
avg rating 4.11 — 203,398 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 — 2,732 ratings — published 2017
A Text Book of Botany (ebook)
by (shelved 23 times as botany)
avg rating 3.72 — 264 ratings — published 2009
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 3.74 — 501 ratings — published
Biology of Plants (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as botany)
avg rating 4.10 — 352 ratings — published 1976
Practical Botany for Gardeners: Over 3,000 Botanical Terms Explained and Explored (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as botany)
avg rating 4.36 — 195 ratings — published 2013
Seeing Trees: Discover the Extraordinary Secrets of Everyday Trees (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as botany)
avg rating 4.26 — 495 ratings — published 2011
Second Nature: A Gardener's Education (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as botany)
avg rating 3.93 — 9,186 ratings — published 1991
The Plant Messiah: Adventures in Search of the World's Rarest Species (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as botany)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,427 ratings — published 2018
Botany Illustrated: Introduction to Plants, Major Groups, Flowering Plant Families (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 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 — 9,183 ratings — published 2007
Bringing Nature Home: How Native Plants Sustain Wildlife in Our Gardens (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as botany)
avg rating 4.44 — 3,769 ratings — published 2007
Mycelium Running: How Mushrooms Can Help Save the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as botany)
avg rating 4.40 — 3,395 ratings — published 2005
Flora: The Definitive Visual Guide to the Plant Kingdom (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as botany)
avg rating 4.69 — 221 ratings — published
The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as botany)
avg rating 4.33 — 30,491 ratings — published 2015
Plant Systematics (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as botany)
avg rating 4.30 — 77 ratings — published 2005
Botany for the Artist: An Inspirational Guide to Drawing Plants (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as botany)
avg rating 4.48 — 567 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
“Bark is a waterproof skin of dead cells that protects a tree's interior plumbing. The furrows in bark are essentially stretch marks that appear as the tree expands. On some trees, like the giant sequoia, bark can be 12 or more inches thick--good insulation from wildfire. Other species, like birch and aspen, have skins just 1/4 inch thick. In the famously exquisite bark of paper birch, cells are laminated on top of one another in layers, so the bark can stretch without furrowing. Microscopic air spaces riddle the outer layers, reflecting light in all directions and making the bark appear white. Should the inner, re4ddish brown bark be exposed, a black scar develops.”
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“The color and shape of flowers are a precise record of what bees find attractive”
― Beauty: The Value of Values
― Beauty: The Value of Values
