Plants
Subtitle: food, medicine, and the green earth
By: Michael Allaby ; illustrations by Richard Garratt.
Contributors: Facts on File, Inc.
Series: Discovering the Earth
Publisher: Facts on File
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780816061020
Subjects: Plants -- History; Botany -- History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The father of botany; title: Herbals and physic gardens; title: Botanical gardens and herbaria; title: Naming plants; title: The plant hunters; title: Geography of plants; title: Plant cultivation; title: Evolution of plants; title: Plant physiology; title: Ecology of plants; title: Biodiversity and plant conservation.