📚 Life Sciences - Botany

Books with life sciences - botany on their catalogue record, first published between 1935 and 2007, ordered by how many editions are in print.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject life sciences - botany in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print, out of the 529 works the catalogue holds under that subject. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	Plants and society	Estelle Levetin	1996	18
	An illustrated manual of Pacific coast trees	Howard McMinn	1935	14
	Ainsworth & Bisby's dictionary of the fungi	G. C. Ainsworth	1961	8
	Principles of seed science and technology	L. O. Copeland	1976	8
	The natural history of pollination	Michael C. F. Proctor	1996	8
	Chinese herbal medicine	Chongyun Liu	2004	7
	Plant families, how to know them	H. E. Jaques	1948	6
	Index of mosses	Marshall R. Crosby	1992	6
	Mineral nutrition of plants	Emanuel Epstein	1972	5
	100 families of flowering plants	Hickey, Michael	1981	5
	Systematics of Pleurothallis	Carlyle A. Luer	1986	5
	Flora of West Virginia	Perry Daniel Strausbaugh	1952	4
	Marijuana botany	Robert Connell Clarke	1981	4
	Seeds	J. Derek Bewley	1985	4
	How to identify mushrooms to genus	David L. Largent	1977	3
	The flora of Canada	H J. Scoggan	1978	3
	Algae	C. van den Hoek	1995	3
	The ecology of plants	Jessica Gurevitch	2006	3
	Plant systematics	Walter S. Judd	2007	3
	Illustrated flora of the Pacific States, Washington, Oregon, and California	Le Roy Abrams	1940	2
	Botany, an introduction to plant biology	Mathew Nadakavukaren	1985	2
	Vegetation of Stewart Island, New Zealand	Hugh D. Wilson	1987	2
	Natural healing encyclopedia	Janice McCall Failes	1987	2
	Agarics and boleti	D. M. Henderson	1987	2
	Key to spores of the genera of hypogeous fungi of north temperate forests with special reference to animal mycophagy	Michael A Castellano	1989	2
	The Diatoms	F. E. Round	1990	2
	Guía botánica del sistema central español	Modesto Luceño	1991	2
	The genera of the umbelliferae	M. G. Pimenov	1993	2
	Vegetation in eastern North America	Akira Miyawaki	1994	2
	Systematics of Restrepia (Orchidaceae)	Carlyle A. Luer	1996	2

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 24 Oct 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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