botany

Contains over two thousand alphabetized, cross-referenced entries on topics in botany, covering taxonomy and classification, anatomy, morphology, genetics, and evolution, and includes more than eighty line drawings and a bibliography.

Text, diagrams, photos, and artwork describe the plant world.

Presents profiles of hundreds of U.S. birds and animals, providing range maps, food lists, and descriptions, and profiles over three hundred plant species, also providing range maps and physical descriptions, and listing the birds and animals they feed.

Offers an evolutionary perspective of the plant world from the time of the earliest life forms.

Brief rhyming text and illustrations present a variety of plants that do not flower but propagate by means of spores, seeds, and cones.

Presents an introduction to plants, in simple text with illustrations, including information on seeds, stems, leaves, the different species of plants, and concepts such as single cells, germination, and photosynthesis. Includes glossary.

Describes the East Bay French-American School gardening project, offers advice on how to set up and maintain a similar program in a home or school garden, features annotated listings of edible plants and herbs, and includes recipes.

Students will learn the structure of plant cells and how plant structures form systems to support plant growth.