I am a senior biology major looking for a text book on botany. No botany classes are offered at my college so I am looking for a supplementary textbook to read to get a basic background. Any suggestions from other college courses or PhDs?Does anyone have a suggestions on a good botany textbook?
If you're looking for an overview of plants, particularly systematics, evolution, taxonomy, and comparative anatomy/physiology (i.e. traditional "botany"), then Raven's Biology of Plants is a standard.
A nice non-text that I have is "A Photographic Atlas for the Botany Laboratory" (Van de Graaf, Rushforth, Crawley).
Taiz and Zeiger's Plant Physiology is a great text for plant physiology.
FYI, you can save yourself some money by buying old, used editions. I doubt much has changed, especially for Raven; Plant Physiology probably has more value in getting an updated version.Does anyone have a suggestions on a good botany textbook?
The books listed here http://www.textbooks.com/Catalog/AA/Bota鈥?/a> are all good, I would read two or three of them to get an idea of the scope of the topic.
For previews see: http://www.google.com/search?q=Botany+%3鈥?/a>
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