botany

Alphabetically arranged entries provide the common and standard names for thousands of plants.

Watercolor illustrations and essays help explore the history and significance of more than two dozen plants collected by Lewis and Clark on their 1806 expedition.

A collection of activities and experiments involving plants, exploring such areas as photosynthesis, plant structures, and growth.

Explore the integral role plants play in our lives as food and medicine. Video Adventures include Plant Reproduction; Plants in Space; Rainforest Plants; Trees; and Survival in Extremes.

Presents a discussion of the role of plants in health, wealth, beauty, and the shaping of knowledge in the world from prehistory through the twenty-first century, with over two hundred illustrations and various historical anecdotes about plants such as rice, cannabis, and tobacco.

"Stems carry out vital jobs for all flowering plants, they hold plants up and carry water and food around each plant."--Provided by publisher.

Provides readers with a complete and comprehensive understanding of the role of leaves, their structure and how they are designed to enable plants to make food.