Outline of botany

Short description: Overview of and topical guide to botany

The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to botany:

Botany - biological discipline which involves the study of plants.

## Contents

* 1 Core concepts of botany
* 2 Subdisciplines of botany
* 3 History of botany
* 4 Kinds of plants
* 4.1 Major plant groups
* 4.2 Some well-known plants
* 5 General plant species concepts
* 6 Notable botanists
* 7 Scholarly societies
* 8 External links

## Core concepts of botany

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

## Subdisciplines of botany

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 of botany

* History of botany
* History of plant systematics

## Kinds of plants

### 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 & horsetails)
* Rhyniophyta (early plants)
* Gymnosperms
* Pteridospermatophyta (seed "ferns")
* Cycadophyta
* Ginkgophyta
* Gnetophyta
* Pinophyta (conifers)
* Angiosperms
* Dicotyledon
* Asteraceae (sunflower family)
* Cactaceae (cactus family)
* Fabaceae (legume family)
* Lamiaceae (mint family)
* Rosaceae (rose family)
* Monocotyledon
* Araceae (arum family)
* Arecaceae (palm family)
* Iridaceae (iris family)
* Orchidaceae (orchid family)
* Poaceae (grass family)

### Some well-known plants

* 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 plant 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
* Botany Photo of the Day

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

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