The Best Books About Plants

“What are the best books about Plants?” We looked at 299 of the top Plant Related books, aggregating and ranking them so we could answer that very question!

The top 17 titles, all appearing on 2 or more “Best Plant” book lists, are ranked below by how many lists they appear on. The remaining 275+ titles, as well as the lists we used are in alphabetical order at the bottom of the page.

Happy Scrolling!

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Top 17 Plant Books

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17 .) A Seed is Sleepy written by Dianna Aston

Lists It Appears On:

• Table Life Blog
• This Reading Mama

Award-winning artist Sylvia Long and author Dianna Hutts Aston have teamed up again to create this gorgeous and informative introduction to seeds. Poetic in voice and elegant in design, the book introduces children to a fascinating array of seed and plant facts, making it a guide that is equally at home being read on a parent’s lap as in a classroom reading circle.

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16 .) Homegrown Herbs: A Complete Guide to Growing, Using, and Enjoying More than 100 Herbs written by Tammi Hartung

Lists It Appears On:

• Bonnie Plants
• Mountain Rose Herbs

Enjoy a thriving, fragrant herb garden and use your harvest to bring beauty, flavor, and health to your everyday life. Tammi Hartung provides in-depth profiles of 101 popular herbs, including information on seed selection, planting, maintenance, harvesting, and drying. Hartung also shows you how to use your herbs in a variety of foods, home remedies, body care products, and crafts. Whether you’re a seasoned herbalist or planting your first garden, Homegrown Herbs will inspire you to get the most out of your herbs.

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15 .) My Garden written by Kevin Henkes

Lists It Appears On:

• Table Life Blog
• This Reading Mama

The girl in this book grows chocolate rabbits, tomatoes as big as beach balls, flowers that change color, and seashells in her garden. How does your garden grow?

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14 .) Oh, Say Can You Seed?

Lists It Appears On:

• Table Life Blog
• The Measured Mom

With the able assistance of Thing 1 and Thing 2 — and a fleet of Rube Goldbergian vehicles — the Cat in the Hat examines the various parts of plants, seeds, and flowers; basic photosynthesis and pollination; and seed dispersal.

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13 .) One Bean written by Anne Rockwell

Lists It Appears On:

• The Measured Mom
• This Reading Mama

What happens when you plant just one little bean? A fundamental childhood experiment charmingly unfolds in this first science book about planting and observation. A perfect balance of simple narration and cheerful, thoughtful three-dimensional paper sculptures just right for the very young, One Bean carefully and joyfully takes the young observer step-by-step through a plant’s growth cycle, from planting the bean in a paper cup to the tasty results. Created with respect to the developmental needs of the youngest learner, here’s a concept book that tips its hat to children’s never-ending curiosity about the world around them.

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11 .) The Complete Guide to Edible Wild Plants, Mushrooms, Fruits, and Nuts: How to Find, Identify, and Cook Them written by Katie Letcher Lyle

Lists It Appears On:

• Goodreads
• Mountain Rose Herbs

An illustrated field guide to the most common edible wild plants, complete with recipes and folklore.

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10 .) The Curious Garden

Lists It Appears On:

• Read Brightly
• Table Life Blog

One boy’s quest for a greener world… one garden at a time. While out exploring one day, a little boy named Liam discovers a struggling garden and decides to take care of it. As time passes, the garden spreads throughout the dark, gray city, transforming it into a lush, green world. This is an enchanting tale with environmental themes and breathtaking illustrations that become more vibrant as the garden blooms. Red-headed Liam can also be spotted on every page, adding a clever seek-and-find element to this captivating picture book.

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9 .) The Empty Pot written by Demi

Lists It Appears On:

• The Measured Mom
• This Reading Mama

An IRA-CBC Children’s Choice. An American Bookseller “Pick of the Lists.” When Ping admits that he is the only child in China unable to grow a flower from the seeds distributed by the Emperor, he is rewarded for his honesty.

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8 .) The Secret Life of Trees written by Colin Tudge

Lists It Appears On:

• Five Books
• Goodreads

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7 .) The Tiny Seed

Lists It Appears On:

• Table Life Blog
• The Measured Mom

In autumn, a strong wind blows flower seeds high in the air and carries them far across the land. One by one, many of the seeds are lost — burned by the sun, fallen into the ocean, eaten by a bird. But some survive the long winter and, come spring, sprout into plants, facing new dangers — trampled by playing children, picked as a gift for a friend. Soon only the tiniest seed remains, growing into a giant flower and, when autumn returns, sending its own seeds into the wind to start the process over again. Eric Carle’s eloquent text and brilliant collages turn the simple life cycle of a plant into an exciting story, a nature lesson, and an inspiring message of the importance of perseverance.

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6 .) A Tree is a Plant written by Clyde R. Bulla

Lists It Appears On:

• Table Life Blog
• The Measured Mom
• This Reading Mama

A tree is the biggest plant that grows. Trees can live for a very long time, and they are alive all year long, even when they look dead in winter. In this newly illustrated book, you will learn how a tree grows and how it gets food and water. You can also find out what happens to water after it travels through a tree’s roots, branches, and leaves, and how to figure out a tree’s age. Clyde Robert Bulla’s simple and concise text and Stacey Schuett’s lush illustrations follow a tree’s continuous life cycle through spring, summer, winter, and fall.

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5 .) Flip, Float, Fly!

Lists It Appears On:

• Table Life Blog
• The Measured Mom
• This Reading Mama

Fans of From Seed to Plant, a perennial seller by Gail Gibbons, will want this lushly illustrated picture book. A gust of wind lifes a maple seed, sending it spinning like a shiny green helicopter throught the sky. Where wil it land? From splashing away in a raindrop to scurrying with scampering squirrels to hitching rides on your sleeves and socks, seeds have many ingenious ways to traveling to new laces, growing roots, and beginning the cycle again.

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4 .) From Seed to Plant written by Gail Gibbons

Lists It Appears On:

• Table Life Blog
• The Measured Mom
• This Reading Mama

Flowers, trees, fruits–plants are all around us, but where do they come from? With simple language and bright illustrations, non-fiction master Gail Gibbons introduces young readers to the processes of pollination, seed formation, and germination. Important vocabulary is reinforced with accessible explanation and colorful, clear diagrams showing the parts of plants, the wide variety of seeds, and how they grow. The book includes instructions for a seed-growing project, and a page of interesting facts about plants, seeds, and flowers. A nonfiction classic, and a perfect companion for early science lessons and curious young gardeners. According to The Washington Post, Gail Gibbons “has taught more preschoolers and early readers about the world than any other children’s writer-illustrator.” Ms. Gibbons is the author of more than 100 books for young readers, including the bestselling titles From Seed to Plant and Monarch Butterfly. Her many honors include the Washington Post/Childrens Book Guild Nonfiction Award and the NSTA Outstanding Science Trade Book Award. From Seed to Plant was included in the Common Core State Standards Appendix B.

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3 .) How a Seed Grows written by Helene J. Jordan

Lists It Appears On:

• Table Life Blog
• The Measured Mom
• This Reading Mama

How does a tiny acorn grow into an enormous oak tree? With beautiful and accurate watercolor illustrations from Loretta Krupinski, this book by Helene Jordan traces the process of how a little seed grows into the plants and trees that surround us. This is a Stage 1 Let’s-Read-and-Find-Out, which means the book explains simple science concepts for preschoolers and kindergarteners. Let’s-Read-And-Find-Out is the winner of the American Association for the Advancement of Science/Subaru Science Books & Films Prize for Outstanding Science Series. Supports the Common Core Learning Standards and Next Generation Science Standards.

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2 .) The Dandelion Seed written by Joseph P. Anthony

Lists It Appears On:

• Table Life Blog
• The Measured Mom
• This Reading Mama

The last dandelion seed clings to the flower until it is blown away to discover there is more to the world than it had believed.

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1 .) The Reason for Flowers: Their History, Culture, Biology, and How They Change Our Lives written by Stephen Buchmann

Lists It Appears On:

• Goodreads
• Table Life Blog
• The Measured Mom

Cultural history at its best—the engaging, lively, and definitive story of the beauty, sexuality, ecology, myths, lore, and economics of the world’s flowers, written by a passionately devoted author and scientist, and illustrated with his stunning photographs. Flowers, and the fruits that follow, feed, clothe, sustain, and inspire all humanity. They have done so since before recorded history. Flowers are used to celebrate all-important occasions, to express love, and are also the basis of global industries. Americans buy ten million flowers a day and perfumes are a worldwide industry worth $30 billion dollars annually. Yet, we know little about flowers, their origins, bizarre sex lives, or how humans relate and depend upon them. Stephen Buchmann takes us along on an exploratory journey of the roles flowers play in the production of our foods, spices, medicines, perfumes, while simultaneously bringing joy and health. Flowering plants continue to serve as inspiration in our myths and legends, in the fine and decorative arts, and in literary works of prose and poetry. Flowers seduce us—and animals, too—through their myriad shapes, colors, textures, and scents. And because of our extraordinary appetite for more unusual and beautiful “super flowers,” plant breeders have created such unnatural blooms as blue roses and black petunias to cater to the human world of haute couture fashion. In so doing, the nectar and pollen vital to the bees, butterflies, and bats of the world, are being reduced. Buchmann explains the unfortunate consequences, and explores how to counter them by growing the right flowers. Here, he integrates fascinating stories about the many colorful personalities who populate the world of flowers, and the flowers and pollinators themselves, with a research-based narrative that illuminates just why there is, indeed, a Reason for Flowers.

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The 275+ Additional Best Plant Related Books

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#	Movies	Directors	Lists
18	100 Best Native Plants for New Zealand Gardens		Book Depository
19	100 Easy-to-Grow Native Plants for American Gardeners in Temperate Zones		Plant Native
20	100 Flowers and How They Got Their Names	Diana Wells	Goodreads
21	100 Himalayan Flowers		Mushroaming
22	100 Perfect Plants		Book Depository
23	100 Vegetables and Where They Came From	William Woys Weaver	Goodreads
24	A Field Guide to Edible Wild Plants: Eastern and Central North America	Lee Allen Peterson	Goodreads
25	A Field Guide to Medicinal Plants and Herbs	Steven Foster	Goodreads
26	A Fruit is a Suitcase for Seeds,		The Measured Mom
27	A Garden of Marvels: How We Discovered that Flowers Have Sex, Leaves Eat Air, and Other Secrets of Plants	Ruth Kassinger	Goodreads
28	A Modern Herbal		Book Depository
29	A Natural History of Conifers	Aljos Farjon	Goodreads
30	A Natural History of English Gardening: 1650-1800	Mark Laird	Goodreads
31	A Natural History of North American Trees	Donald Culross Peattie	Goodreads
32	A Natural History of Trees and People in the American Cityscape		Signature Reads
33	A Natural History of What Trees Are, How They Live, and Why They Matter		Signature Reads
34	A New Beginning		Read Brightly
35	A Pictorial Guide to the Birds of the Indian Subcontinent		Mushroaming
36	A Plant’s-Eye View of the World		Signature Reads
37	A Supplement.		Mushroaming
38	A Tiny Seed	Eric Carle	This Reading Mama
39	A Tree is Nice	Janice May Udry	This Reading Mama
40	A Weed by Any Other Name: The Virtues of a Messy Lawn, or Learning to Love the Plants We Don’t Plant	Nancy Gift	Goodreads
41	Adventures in Edible Plant Foraging: Finding, Identifying, Harvesting, and Preparing Native and Invasive Wild Plants	Karen Monger	Goodreads
42	Adventures in Search of the World’s Rarest Species		Signature Reads
43	Alpine Flowering Plants in		Mushroaming
44	Amazing Rare Things: The Art of Natural History in the Age of Discovery	David Attenborough	Goodreads
45	American Canopy: Trees, Forests, and the Making of a Nation	Eric Rutkow	Goodreads
46	American Chestnut: The Life, Death, and Rebirth of a Perfect Tree	Susan Freinkel	Goodreads
47	An Instant Guide to Rare Wildlife of		Mushroaming
48	An Orchard Invisible: A Natural History of Seeds	Jonathan Silvertown	Goodreads
49	Anatomy Of A Rose: Exploring The Secret Life Of Flowers	Sharman Apt Russell	Goodreads
50	Annuals and Biennials		Gardens Illustrated
51	As an Oak Tree Grows		Table Life Blog
52	Australian Coastal Gardens		Book Depository
53	Australian Native Plants		Book Depository
54	Banana: The Fate of the Fruit That Changed the World	Dan Koeppel	Goodreads
55	Be a Friend to Trees	Patricia Lauber	This Reading Mama
56	Beauty by Design		Book Depository
57	Beginner Gardening for Canada		Book Depository
58	Berry Finder		Book Depository
59	Beth Chatto’s Gravel Garden		Gardens Illustrated
60	Birds of		Mushroaming
61	Birdscaping Australian Gardens		Book Depository
62	Bizarre Botanicals: How to Grow String-of-Hearts, Jack-in-the-Pulpit, Panda Ginger, and Other Weird and Wonderful Plants	Larry Mellichamp	Goodreads
63	Bizarre Plants: Magical, Monstrous, Mythical	William A. Emboden	Goodreads
64	Botany for Gardeners		Gardens Illustrated
65	Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants	Robin Wall Kimmerer	Goodreads
66	Bread, Wine, Chocolate: The Slow Loss of Foods We Love	Simran Sethi	Goodreads
67	Bring the Outside In	Val Bradley	Independent
68	British Gardens in Time: The Greatest Garden Makers from Capability Brown to Christopher Lloyd	Chris Beardshaw	Goodreads
69	Bulb		Gardens Illustrated
70	by JoAnn E. Macken		This Reading Mama
71	Concise Flowers of the		Mushroaming
72	Container Gardening for Washington and Oregon		Book Depository
73	Cork Wars: Intrigue and Industry in World War II	David A. Taylor	Goodreads
74	Creating an Australian Garden		Book Depository
75	Creative Vegetable Gardening	Joy Larkcom	Urban Turnip
76	Daffodil : biography of a flower	Helen O’Neill	Goodreads
77	Delira and Excira: Visions of the Flowers of Spring	Stephen Tomasko	Goodreads
78	Designing Gardens With Flora of the American East		Book Depository
79	Dream Plants for the Natural Garden		Gardens Illustrated
80	Eating the Sun	Oliver Morton	Five Books
81	Edible and Useful Plants of California		Honest Food
82	Edible Native Plants of the Rocky Mountains		Honest Food
83	Edible Wild Plants		Honest Food
84	EIEIO: How Old MacDonald Got His Farm with a Little Help From a Hen		Read Brightly
85	Empire of Vines: Wine Culture in America	Erica Hannickel	Goodreads
86	Explorer’s Guide to Wildlife Adventures	J.Z. Hunt	Goodreads
87	Feeding the Ten Billion	L T Evans	Five Books
88	Field Guide to the Wildflowers of Ganzi. 2007. Wang Chen, Flora & Fauna International, 146p.		Mushroaming
89	Flora Illustrata: Great Works from the LuEsther T. Mertz Library of The New York Botanical Garden	Susan M. Fraser	Goodreads
90	Flower Confidential: The Good, the Bad, and the Beautiful in the Business of Flowers	Amy Stewart	Goodreads
91	Flowers of the		Mushroaming
92	Folklore and Symbolism of Flowers, Plants and Trees	Ernst Lehner	Goodreads
93	Foraging & Feasting		Mountain Rose Herbs
94	Gardening with Native Wild Flowers		Plant Native
95	Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses	Robin Wall Kimmerer	Goodreads
96	Gathering the Desert		Honest Food
97	Ginseng Dreams: The Secret World of America’s Most Valuable Plant	Kristin Johannsen	Goodreads
98	Ginseng, the Divine Root: The Curious History of the Plant That Captivated the World	David A. Taylor	Goodreads
99	Gods and Goddesses in the Garden: Greco-Roman Mythology and the Scientific Names of Plants	Peter Bernhardt	Goodreads
100	Good Bug Bad Bug: Who’s Who, What They Do, and How to Manage Them Organically	Jessica Walliser	Bonnie Plants
101	Grow Great Grub: Organic Food from Small Spaces	Gayla Trail	Bonnie Plants
102	Grow Your Own Crops in Pots	Kay Maguire	Urban Turnip
103	Growing At-Risk Medicinal Herbs		Mountain Rose Herbs
104	Guide to the Flowers of Western China.		Mushroaming
105	Heirloom Harvest: Modern Daguerreotypes of Historic Garden Treasures	Amy Goldman	Goodreads
106	Hello, World! Backyard Bugs		Read Brightly
107	Henk Gerritsen: Essay on Gardening		Gardens Illustrated
108	Herbs and Medicinal Plants Knowledge Cards		Mountain Rose Herbs
109	Himalayan Plants Illustrated		Mushroaming
110	House of Plants	Caro Langton and Rose Ray	Independent
111	How Carrots Won the Trojan War: Curious (but True) Stories of Common Vegetables	Rebecca Rupp	Goodreads
112	How Do Apples Grow?		The Measured Mom
113	How Does a Seed Grow?		The Measured Mom
114	How Not to Kill Your Houseplant	Veronica Peerless	Independent
115	How Not to Kill Your Plants	Nik Southern	Independent
116	How to Grow Perennial Vegetables	Martin Crawford	Urban Turnip
117	How Trees Can Help You Find Health and Happiness		Signature Reads
118	I Can Name 50 Trees Today!: All About Trees		Table Life Blog
119	If You Hold A Seed		This Reading Mama
120	If you Plant a Seed,		The Measured Mom
121	Indian Wildlife		Mushroaming
122	Indigenous		Book Depository
123	Indoor Kitchen Gardening	Elizabeth Millard	Urban Turnip
124	Into the Wild		Mushroaming
125	Jack’s Garden		Table Life Blog
126	Lab Girl	Hope Jahren	Goodreads
127	Latin for Gardeners: Over 3,000 Plant Names Explained and Explored	Lorraine Harrison	Goodreads
128	Leave a comment below!		Urban Turnip
129	Lichens (New Naturalist, #86)	Oliver Gilbert	Goodreads
130	Little Honey Bee		Read Brightly
131	Little Seeds,		The Measured Mom
132	Lives of the Trees: An Uncommon History	Diana Wells	Goodreads
133	Living Treasures		Mushroaming
134	Living with Natives		Book Depository
135	Living with Plants	Sophie Lee	Independent
136	Lois Hole’s Flowers Box Set		Book Depository
137	Lois Hole’s Rose Favorites		Book Depository
138	Lola Plants a Garden		Table Life Blog
139	Lorraine Cavanagh’s Mediterranean Garden Plants		Book Depository
140	Making a Garden on a Greek Hillside		Book Depository
141	Making a Garden: Successful gardening by nature’s rules		Gardens Illustrated
142	McGee & Stuckey’s Bountiful Container: Create Container Gardens of Vegetables, Herbs, Fruits, and Edible Flowers	Rose Marie Nichols McGee and Maggie Stuckey	Bonnie Plants
143	Medicinal Plants of the Pacific West		Mountain Rose Herbs
144	Medicinal Plants of the Southern Appalachians	Patricia Kyritsi Howell	Goodreads
145	Medieval Flowers	Miranda Innes	Goodreads
146	Mediterranean Gardens		Book Depository
147	Mushrooms Demystified		Honest Food
148	Mushrooms: How To Identify and Gather Wild Mushrooms and Other Fungi	Thomas Læssøe	Goodreads
149	My Garden (Book)	Jamaica Kincaid	Goodreads
150	My Tiny Indoor Garden	Lia Leendertz	Independent
151	My Vegetable Love	Carl H. Klaus	Goodreads
152	Mycophilia: Revelations from the Weird World of Mushrooms	Eugenia Bone	Goodreads
153	Namche Barwa Grand Canyon		Mushroaming
154	Nathaniel’s Nutmeg: How One Man’s Courage Changed the Course of History	Giles Milton	Goodreads
155	National Geographic Readers: Seed to Plant		Table Life Blog
156	Native: Art and Design with Australian Plants		Book Depository
157	Natural Landscaping: Designing With Native Plant Communities		Plant Native
158	Nature’s Palette: The Science of Plant Color	David Lee	Goodreads
159	Nature’s Garden		Honest Food
160	New Annuals for Canada		Book Depository
161	New Zealand Native Ground Cover Plants		Book Depository
162	Nieuwe flora in kleur : zaadplanten	Mogens Skytte Christiansen	Goodreads
163	Noah’s Garden: Restoring the Ecology of Our Own Backyards		Plant Native
164	Once There Was a Seed		The Measured Mom
165	One Man’s Long View of Nature		Signature Reads
166	One Watermelon Seed,		The Measured Mom
167	Orchids		Mushroaming
168	Orchids of Arunachal Pradesh		Mushroaming
169	Other books worthy of a mention		Urban Turnip
170	Out of Nature: Why Drugs from Plants Matter to the Future of Humanity	Kara Rogers	Goodreads
171	Papyrus: The Plant that Changed the World: From Ancient Egypt to Today’s Water Wars	John Gaudet	Goodreads
172	Pawpaw: In Search of America’s Forgotten Fruit	Andrew Moore	Goodreads
173	Peppa Pig and the Vegetable Garden		Read Brightly
174	Perennial Garden Plants or the Modern Florilegium		Gardens Illustrated
175	Perennials for Saskatchewan and Manitoba		Book Depository
176	Pick, Pull, Snap!,		The Measured Mom
177	Plant	Janet Marinelli	Five Books
178	Planting a Rainbow		Table Life Blog
179	Planting Noah’s Garden: Further Adventures in Backyard Ecology		Plant Native
180	Plants Feed Me	Lizzy Rockw	This Reading Mama
181	Plants: From Roots to Riches	Kathy Willis	Goodreads
182	Potato: A History of the Propitious Esculent	John Reader	Goodreads
183	Rambling over the		Mushroaming
184	Rare and Exotic Orchids	Joel L. Schiff	Goodreads
185	Rare and Precious Wild Flowers of		Mushroaming
186	Rare Flowers and Unusual Trees		Mushroaming
187	RHS Encyclopedia of Gardening		Gardens Illustrated
188	RHS Good Plant Guide		Book Depository
189	RHS Latin for Gardeners		Gardens Illustrated
190	RHS Miniature Garden Grower	Holly Farrell	Independent
191	Salad Leaves for All Seasons	Charles Dowding	Urban Turnip
192	Second Nature: A Gardener’s Education	Michael Pollan	Goodreads
193	Secrets of Saffron: The Vagabond Life of the World’s Most Seductive Spice	Pat Willard	Goodreads
194	Secrets of the Garden		Read Brightly
195	Seeds and More Seeds		The Measured Mom
196	Seeds Go, Seeds Grow,		The Measured Mom
197	Seeds of Change: Six Plants That Transformed Mankind	Henry Hobhouse	Goodreads
198	Seeds of Hope: Wisdom and Wonder from the World of Plants	Jane Goodall	Goodreads
199	Seeds,		The Measured Mom
200	Seeds! Seeds! Seeds!		The Measured Mom
201	Seeing Trees: Discover the Extraordinary Secrets of Everyday Trees	Nancy Ross Hugo	Goodreads
202	Shakespeare’s Flora and Fauna	Trafalgar Square	Goodreads
203	Small-Space Plants to Grow Indoors or Out		Signature Reads
204	Spring Wildflowers of the Northeast: A Natural History	Carol Gracie	Goodreads
205	Square Metre Gardening	Mel Bartholomew	Urban Turnip
206	Stalking The Blue-Eyed Scallop		Honest Food
207	Stalking The Healthful Herbs		Honest Food
208	Stories from Bug Garden		Read Brightly
209	Stories from Nature’s Great Connectors		Signature Reads
210	Sturtevant’s Edible Plants of the World		Honest Food
211	Succulents Simplified	Debra Lee Baldwin	Independent
212	Tea: The Drink that Changed the World	Laura C. Martin	Goodreads
213	Tell Me, Tree	Gail Gibbons	This Reading Mama
214	The (New) Vegetable & Herb Expert	Dr. D.G. Hessayon	Urban Turnip
215	The Alpine Plants of		Mushroaming
216	The Aromatherapy Garden		Mountain Rose Herbs
217	The Balcony Gardener	Isabelle Palmer	Urban Turnip
218	The Beautiful Edible Garden	Leslie Bennett and Stefani Bittner	Bonnie Plants
219	The Botany of Desire: A Plant’s-Eye View of the World	Michael Pollan	Goodreads
220	The Brother Gardeners: Botany, Empire and the Birth of an Obsession	Andrea Wulf	Goodreads
221	The Busy Tree		Table Life Blog
222	The Carrot Seed		The Measured Mom
223	The Coastal Garden		Book Depository
224	The Colour Handbook of the Birds of		Mushroaming
225	The Drunken Botanist: The Plants That Create the World’s Great Drinks	Amy Stewart	Goodreads
226	The Education of a Gardener		Gardens Illustrated
227	The Emerald Planet	D J Beerling	Five Books
228	The Encyclopedia of Grasses for Livable Landscapes		Gardens Illustrated
229	The Flower Alphabet Book		Table Life Blog
230	The Flower of Empire: An Amazonian Water Lily, the Quest to Make It Bloom, and the World It Created	Tatiana Holway	Goodreads
231	The Forest Unseen: A Year’s Watch in Nature	David George Haskell	Goodreads
232	The Forever Garden		Read Brightly
233	The Fruit Hunters: A Story of Nature, Adventure, Commerce, and Obsession	Adam Leith Gollner	Goodreads
234	The Gardener’s Book of Colour		Gardens Illustrated
235	The Giant Panda		Mushroaming
236	The Giving Tree	Shel Silverstein	This Reading Mama
237	The Heirloom Tomato: From Garden to Table: Recipes, Portraits, and History of the World’s Most Beautiful Fruit	Amy Goldman	Goodreads
238	The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate – Discoveries from a Secret World	Peter Wohlleben	Goodreads
239	The High Frontier: Exploring the Tropical Rainforest Canopy,	Mark W. Moffett	Goodreads
240	The Hillier Manual of Trees and Shrubs		Gardens Illustrated
241	The House Gardener	Isabelle Palmer	Independent
242	The Kew Tropical Plant Families Identification Handbook	Timothy M.A. Utteridge	Goodreads
243	The Kingdom of Plants	Will Benson	Goodreads
244	The Landscaping Revolution		Plant Native
245	The Little Book of Cacti and Other Succulents	Emma Sibley	Independent
246	The Living Forest: An Eye-Opening Journey from the Canopy to the Woodland Floor	Robert Llewellyn	Goodreads
247	The Magic School Bus Plants Seeds,		The Measured Mom
248	The Medicinal Herb Grower		Mountain Rose Herbs
249	The Native Plant Primer		Plant Native
250	The Natural Habitat Garden		Plant Native
251	The Natural History of		Mushroaming
252	The Orchid Thief: A True Story of Beauty and Obsession	Susan Orlean	Goodreads
253	The Plant Hunters: The Adventures of the World’s Greatest Botanical Explorers	Carolyn Fry	Goodreads
254	The Plant Messiah: Adventures in Search of the World’s Rarest Species	Carlos Magdalena	Goodreads
255	The Pollination Of Flowers (New Naturalist, #54)	Michael C.F. Proctor	Goodreads
256	The Private Life of Plants: A Natural History of Plant Behaviour	David Attenborough	Goodreads
257	The Rare Plants and Flowers of		Mushroaming
258	The Red-Crowned Crane		Mushroaming
259	The Rose		Gardens Illustrated
260	The Secret Garden		Read Brightly
261	The Secret Life of Plants: A Fascinating Account of the Physical, Emotional and Spiritual Relations Between Plants and Man	Peter Tompkins	Goodreads
262	The Secret Teachings of Plants: The Intelligence of the Heart in the Direct Perception of Nature	Stephen Harrod Buhner	Goodreads
263	The Songs of Trees: Stories from Nature’s Great Connectors	David George Haskell	Goodreads
264	The Story of the English Garden		Book Depository
265	The Tea Companion	Jane Pettigrew	Goodreads
266	The Top 100 Herbal Remedies: Safe, Effective Remedies for 100 Common Ailments. Anne McIntyre	Anne McIntyre	Goodreads
267	The Tree: A Natural History of What Trees Are, How They Live & Why They Matter	Colin Tudge	Goodreads
268	The Trees in My Forest	Bernd Heinrich	Goodreads
269	The Triumph of Seeds: How Grains, Nuts, Kernels, Pulses, and Pips Conquered the Plant Kingdom and Shaped Human History	Thor Hanson	Goodreads
270	The True Adventures of the Globe-Trotting Botanist Who Transformed What America Eats		Signature Reads
271	The Vegetable Gardener’s Bible	Edward C. Smith	Bonnie Plants
272	The Well-Tempered Garden		Gardens Illustrated
273	The Wild Flowers of Yunnan in China.		Mushroaming
274	The Wild Lawn Handbook		Plant Native
275	The Wild Trees: A Story of Passion and Daring	Richard Preston	Goodreads
276	The Wildlife Treasure-House		Mushroaming
277	Tibetan Medicinal Plants		Mushroaming
278	Tokyo Digs a Garden		Read Brightly
279	Tomatoland: How Modern Industrial Agriculture Destroyed Our Most Alluring Fruit	Barry Estabrook	Goodreads
280	Tops and Bottoms	Janet Stevens	This Reading Mama
281	Tree for All Seasons	Robin Bernard	This Reading Mama
282	Trees: Their Natural History	Peter Thomas	Goodreads
283	Trung-pe trime shelgyi Melong,		Mushroaming
284	Tulipomania: The Story of the World’s Most Coveted Flower & the Extraordinary Passions It Aroused	Mike Dash	Goodreads
285	Up in the Garden and Down in the Dirt		Read Brightly
286	Viridarium Umbris: The Pleasure Garden of Shadow	Daniel A. Schulke	Goodreads
287	Wangari’s Trees of Peace,		The Measured Mom
288	Weeds: How Vagabond Plants Gatecrashed Civilisation and Changed the Way We Think About Nature	Richard Mabey	Goodreads
289	What a Plant Knows: A Field Guide to the Senses	Daniel Chamovitz	Goodreads
290	Which Native Forest Plant?		Book Depository
291	Which Native Tree?		Book Depository
292	Who Named the Daisy? Who Named the Rose?: A Roving Dictionary of North American Wildflowers	Mary B. Durant	Goodreads
293	Wicked Plants: The Weed That Killed Lincoln’s Mother and Other Botanical Atrocities	Amy Stewart	Goodreads
294	Wiggly Worms at Work	Wendy Pfeffer	This Reading Mama
295	Wild Flowers of Britain and Northwest Europe	Christopher Grey-Wilson	Goodreads
296	Wild Plants I Have Known…and Eaten		Honest Food
297	Witch’s Guide to Gardening	Dorothy Jacob	Goodreads
298	Wonder Plants	Irene Schampaert	Independent
299	Zinnia’s Flower Garden		Table Life Blog

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16 Best Plant Book Sources/Lists

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Source	Article
Bonnie Plants	6 Great Books for New Gardeners – Bonnie Plants
Book Depository	Botany books for artists – Botanical Art & Artists
Five Books	The Best Books on Plants | Five Books
Gardens Illustrated	The best books for plant lovers | Gardens Illustrated
Goodreads	Nonfiction Books about Plants (199 books) – Goodreads
Honest Food	Best Foraging Books – Books on Edible Plants
Independent	11 best indoor planting books | The Independent
Mountain Rose Herbs	Plant Identification & Gardening Books – Mountain Rose Herbs
Mushroaming	Books on Plants, Mushroom & Wildlife of the Tibetan Plateau …
Plant Native	Books on Native Plants, Landscaping, Naturescaping and Xeriscaping
Read Brightly	Little Green Thumbs: 12 Garden-Filled Picture Books for Spring | Brightly
Signature Reads	10 Books About Botany and the Power of Plants – Signature Reads
Table Life Blog	What to Read: 20 Children’s Books About Seeds and Plants …
The Measured Mom	Books about seeds and plants – The Measured Mom
This Reading Mama	Seeds and Plants Book List for Kids – This Reading Mama
Urban Turnip	Best books about urban gardening and container growing – Urban …