Botany Illustrated: Introduction to Plants, Major Groups, Flowering Plant Families Paperback – January 1, 2006

Awesome introduction to botany! Very interactive.

I have been looking for a book that addresses the basics of Botany for a long time. This book immediately explains and divides the plants into divisions, class, and families. I know there are literally thousands of families but they showed a good many common ones. I use the book to help me identify plants. It also helps me to draw them in my pen and ink sketches.

Actually, I love the illustrations - and I do like to color. I bought it for the purpose of using the family descriptions and doing my own illustrations for an ethnobotany book I'm writing. It was not the right book for that purpose because as it says it is only for the major plant groups. Also, the descriptions are not very detailed.It is a beautiful well-done book for a budding botanical illustrator.

I'm coloring in my spare time. Retirement is full of fun activities!

Very pleased that this is both a botany book, covering basic principles of botany, and at the same time an 'adult' colouring book (a la Anatomy or Physiology colouring books), which allows you to actively reinforce your learning by colouring in the plant sections accompanying what you are reading. Very nice book.

This book was a gift and the person I got it for loved it! He said it was a very informative book and he was learning alot about plants and flowers from it.

Price and speed of delivery

I did not realize that this is a coloring book. Table of contents looks good but tricked me into thinking it is a text book on botany. Get a botany coloring book per session instead.