Outline of botany

Overview of and topical guide to botany

The following outline is an overview of and topical guide to botany, the biological academic discipline involving the study of plants.

Core concepts

• Bud
• Cell wall
• Chlorophyll
• Chloroplast
• Flora
• Flower
• Fruit
• Forest
• Leaf
• Meristem
• Photosynthesis
• Plant
• Plant cell
• Pollen
• Seed
• Seedling
• Spore
• Tree
• Vine
• Wood

Subdisciplines

Branches of botany

• Agronomy
• Bryology (mosses and liverworts)
• Dendrology (woody plants)
• Ethnobotany
• Lichenology (lichens)
• Mycology (fungi)
• Paleobotany
• Palynology (spores and pollen)
• Phycology (algae)
• Phytosociology
• Plant anatomy
• Plant ecology
• Plant evolution
• Plant morphology
• Plant pathology
• Plant physiology
• Plant taxonomy
• Pteridology (ferns)

History

• History of botany
• History of plant systematics

Major plant groups

• Algae
  • Cyanobacteria
  • Brown algae
  • Charophyta
  • Chlorophyta
  • Desmid
  • Diatom
  • Red algae
  • Green algae
• Bryophytes
  • Anthocerotophyta (hornworts)
  • Bryophyta (mosses)
  • Marchantiophyta (liverworts)
• Pteridophytes
  • Lycopodiophyta (club mosses)
  • Pteridophyta (ferns and horsetails)
  • Rhyniophyta (early plants)
• Gymnosperms
  • Pteridospermatophyta (seed ferns)
  • Cycadophyta
  • Ginkgophyta
  • Gnetophyta
  • Pinophyta (conifers)
• Angiosperms
  • Dicotyledon
    • Asteraceae (sunflowers)
    • Cactaceae (cacti)
    • Fabaceae (legumes)
    • Lamiaceae (mints)
    • Rosaceae (roses)
  • Monocotyledon
    • Araceae (aroids)
    • Arecaceae (palms)
    • Iridaceae (irises)
    • Orchidaceae (orchids)
    • Poaceae (grasses)

Lists

• List of culinary fruits
• List of edible seeds
• List of culinary herbs and spices
• List of culinary nuts
• List of vegetables
• List of woods

General species concepts

• Plant taxonomy
  • Cultivated plant taxonomy
  • List of systems of plant taxonomy
• Clades
  • Monophyletic
  • Polyphyletic
• Speciation
• Isolating mechanisms
• Concept of species
  • Species problem

Notable botanists

In alphabetical order by surname:

• Aristotle
• Arthur Cronquist (angiosperm evolution)
• Charles Darwin (formulated modern theory of evolution)
• Carl Linnaeus (father of systematics)
• Gregor Mendel (father of genetics)
• John Ray
• G. Ledyard Stebbins (angiosperm evolution)
• Theophrastus (uses and classification)
• Robert Thorne (angiosperm evolution)
• Gilbert White
• List of Russian botanists

Scholarly societies

• American Society of Plant Biologists

External links

• Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation
• Plant growth and the plant cell from Kimball's Biology Pages
• Botanical Society of America: What is Botany?
• Science & Plants for Schools
• Teaching Documents about Botany Teaching documents, lecture
• Why study Plants? Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge

Flora and other plant catalogs or databases

• The Virtual Library of Botany
• High quality pictures of plants and information about them from Catholic University of Leuven
• Curtis's Botanical Magazine, 1790–1856
• The Trees Of Great Britain and Ireland, by Henry John Elwes & Augustine Henry, 1906–1913
• Botanik-Datenbank (ger.)
• Plant Directory (ger.)
• USDA plant database
• The Linnean Society of London
• Native Plant Information Network