Botany Online is based on Peter von Sengbusch’s 1989 textbook Botanik. The original text is being translated from German and hundreds of colored illustrations and photos, animations and diagrams have been added. Educators, scholars and hobbiests are invited to participate in this ongoing effort to amass what the participants hope to become the standard in [...]
Free Online Botany Textbooks
Put simply, botany, is the study of plant life. Also known as plant science or plant biology, botany began as humans tried to identify which plants were edible, had medicinal qualities or were poisonous. It covers a range of scientific disciplines which include chemical properties, development, diseases, evolutionary relationships among taxonomic groups, growth, metabolism, structure and reproduction.
Botanists study plant life from the biochemical, genetic and molecular levels of plants by exploring the cells, organelles, tissues, organs, populations and communities of plants.
Since agriculture focuses more on the commercial aspects of botany rather than the scientific, there’s a separate section of the Online Degree Discussion Free Textbook list dedicated to online agricultural textbooks.
Traditional textbooks in this biological science are like most science books – quite expensive and heavy to carry around. Today’s college students are lucky in that more and more scholars, educators and scientists are providing botany textbooks online for no cost.
List of Free Online Botany Textbooks
Botany Online – The Internet Hypertextbook
Introduction to Botany
One of a growing number of opencourseware offerings from Professional Education, Testing and Certification Organization International, their Introduction to Botany course will include a full textbook which appears to be fairly close to complete. I can’t tell you who wrote it because that is one of the incomplete sections but the core materials do look [...]
Plant Physiology
This site offers free online study materials designed to supplement the 5th edition of this textbook by Lincoln Taiz and Eduardo Zeiger. The good news for botany students is that this site offers a somewhat Cliff’s Notes-like overview of each of the chapters and sections contained in the fifth edition and two complete chapters (Energy [...]