Literature Guide: Plants and Botany
WCIU Journal: Environmental Studies Topic
January 26, 2021
Compiled by Timothy Skinner, MLS
(Note: An asterisk indicates online resources held by Latourette Library.)
Library of Congress Classification
QK Botany
Dewey Decimal Classification
580 Botany
Library of Congress Subject Headings
Acid-tolerant plants
Alien plants
Aquatic plants
Arid regions plants
Aromatic plants
Carnivorous plants
Cave plants
Dangerous plants
Diseased plants
Drought-tolerant plants
Endangered plants
Endemic plants
Evergreens
Fallow land plants
Fertilization of plants
Flowers
Forage plants
Fruit
Gases from plants
Halophytes
Host plants
Human-plant relationships
Leaves
Low-allergen plants
Mycorrhizal plants
Parasitic plants
Pasture plants
Perennial plants
Phytoplankton
Plant varieties
Plants, Useful
Railroad plants
Rare plants
Seedlings
Seeds
Thorns
Trees
Understory plants
Urban plants
Weeds
Wetland plants
Xerophytes
Periodicals
American Journal of Botany
Annals of Botany
Aquatic Botany
New Journal of Botany
The Plant Journal
Plant Physiology
Plant Science
Reference Books
The American Horticultural Society A-Z Encyclopedia of Garden Plants (1997)
Baker Encyclopedia of Bible Plants (1992)
A Botanist’s Vocabulary: 1300 Terms Explained and Illustrated (2016)
CRC Ethnobotany Desk Reference (2019)
CRC World Dictionary of Plant Names (1999)
The Encyclopedia of Psychoactive Plants: Ethnopharmacology and Its Applications (2005)
The Kew Garden Glossary: An Illustrated Dictionary of Plant Terms (2nd ed., 2016)
*The New Oxford Book of Food Plants (2009)
Plant Identification Terminology: An Illustrated Glossary (2001)
RHS Encyclopedia of Plants and Flowers (2019)
Books
Anderson, David A. 1979. All the Trees and Woody Plants of the Bible. Waco, TX: Word.
Anderson, Edward F. 1993. Plants and Peoples of the Golden Triangle: Ethnobotany of the
Hill Tribes of Northern Thailand. Portland, OR: Dioscorides Press.
*Clarke, Philip A. 2011. Aboriginal People and Their Plants. Sydney, Australia: Rosenberg.
Coyle, Heather Miller, ed. 2004. Forensic Botany: Principles and Applications to Criminal Casework. Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press.
*Gledhill, D. 2008. The Names of Plants. 4th ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Huxley, Anthony. 2005. Green Inheritance: Saving the Plants of the World. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.
*King, John. 1997. Reaching for the Sun: How Plants Work. Cambridge University Press.
Laws, Bill. 2010. Fifty Plants That Changed the Course of History. Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books.
Mauseth, James D. 2019. Botany: An Introduction to Plant Biology. 7th ed. Burlington, MA: Jones & Bartlett Learning.
*Murray, David Ronald. 2003. Seeds of Concern: The Genetic Manipulation of Plants. Sydney, Australia: UNSW Press.
*Pallardy, Stephen G., and T. T. Kozlowski. 2008. Physiology of Woody Plants. 3rd ed. Amsterdam: Elsevier.
Plotkin, Mark J. 1993. Tales of a Shaman’s Apprentice: An Ethnobotanist Searches for New Medicines in the Amazon Rain Forest. New York: Viking.
Prance, Ghillian, and Mark Nesbitt, eds. 2002. The Cultural History of Plants. New York: Routledge.
*Rice, Stanley A. 2009. Green Planet: How Plants Keep the Earth Alive. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press.
Rupp, Rebecca. 2011. How Carrots Won the Trojan War: Curious (but True) Stories of Common Vegetables. North Adams, MA: Storey Publishing.
*Schiebinger, Londa L. 2004. Plants and Empire: Colonial Bioprospecting in the Atlantic World. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
Timothy Skinner, MLS, is the Librarian for William Carey International University and a member of Frontier Ventures.