Lists of useful plants

The maguey was cultivated by the Aztecs for its numerous uses including construction, fibre, hedging and production of the sacred drink pulque.[1]

This article contains a list of useful plants, meaning a plant that has been or can be co-opted by humans to fulfill a particular need. Rather than listing all plants on one page, this page instead collects the lists and categories for the different ways in which a plant can be used; some plants may fall into several of the categories or lists below, and some lists overlap (for example, the term "crop" covers both edible and non-edible agricultural products).

## Edible plants

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* Category:Edible plants
* Category:Cereals
* List of edible flowers
* Category:Forages
* Category:Grains
* Category:Spices
* List of culinary herbs and spices

### Fruits and vegetables

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* Category:Fruit
* Category:Edible nuts and seeds
* Category:Vegetables
* Category:Inflorescence vegetables
* Category:Leaf vegetables
* Category:Root vegetables
* Category:Edible seaweeds
* Category:Stem vegetables

## Forestry

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* Category:Wood
* Category:Shrubs
* Category:Trees

## Medicine, drugs, psychoactives

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1.Category:Medicinal plants 2.Category:Medicinal herbs and fungi 3.List of Plants Used for Smoking

## Other economic purposes

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* Category:Crops
* Category:Energy crops
* List of beneficial weeds

## References

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1. ^ Christopher Cumo, ed. (2013), Encyclopedia of Cultivated Plants, ABC-CLIO, p. 5, ISBN 9781598847758

## External links

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* Plants For A Future
* Permaculture Information Web
* Plant Resources of Tropical Africa (PROTA)
* Handbook of Energy Crops
* Lost Crops of Africa: Volume 1: Grains
* Lost Crops of the Incas[permanent dead link]
* Bibliography on underutilized roots and tubers crops
* Australian New Crops Web Site
* Plant Resources of South East Asia (PROSEA)[usurped]
* Global Facilitation Unit for Underutilized Species
* UN Centre for the Alleviation of Poverty through Secondary Crops' Development in Asia and the Pacific (UNCAPSA)
* Traditional African Vegetables
* ECHO (Educational Concerns for Hunger Organization)

This article includes a species-related list of lists.