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Entangled Life
Merlin SheldrakeA popular account of fungi and their role in plant and soil life, useful for seeing how plants depend on other organisms.
Braiding Sweetgrass
Robin Wall KimmererEssays combining botanical knowledge with Indigenous ways of knowing plants, widely read as nature writing.
Gathering Moss
Robin Wall KimmererA close study of mosses that uses their biology to examine ecology and attention to small organisms.
Biology of Plants
Peter H. RavenA long-running university textbook that shaped how plant biology was taught in English-speaking courses.
Gerard's Herball
John GerardAn English herbal of plants and their uses, important for the history of botanical illustration and early English plant lore.
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- A General System of Nature
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The Art of Botanical IllustrationWilfrid Blunt - Cosmos
CosmosAlexander von Humboldt - Plant Pathology
Plant PathologyGeorge N. Agrios - Plant Systematics
Plant SystematicsChristopher S. Campbell - Introductory Plant Biology
Introductory Plant BiologyKingsley R. Stern - Botany
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