📚 Plants

Books with plants on their catalogue record, first published between 1742 and 2010, ordered by how many editions are in print.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject plants in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print, out of the 145,792 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
	The variation of animals and plants under domestication	Charles Darwin	1868	41
	Insectivorous plants	Charles Darwin	1875	38
	Class-book of botany	Alphonso Wood	1845	35
	Introductory plant biology	Kingsley R. Stern	1979	30
	How a Seed Grows	Helene J. Jordan	1960	24
	Plants and society	Estelle Levetin	1996	18
	A modern herbal	M. Grieve	1931	17
	What's Inside?	DK Publishing	1991	16
	Plant-microbe interactions	Noel T. Keen	1995	15
	From seed to plant	Gail Gibbons	1991	10
	Biology of plants	Peter H. Raven	1970	9
	The secret life of plants	Peter Tompkins	1973	9
	Plants That Never Ever Bloom	Ruth Heller	1984	9
	Using Wayside Plants	Nelson Coon	1957	8
	Cunningham's Encyclopedia of magical herbs	Scott Cunningham	1985	8
	Hungry Plants	Mary Batten	1999	8
	Plant Parts (Life of Plants)	Louise Spilsbury	2002	8
	Plants & Fungi	Robert Snedden	2002	8
	Plant anatomy	Katherine Esau	1953	6
	Hallucinogenic plants	Richard Evans Schultes	1966	6
	Stalking the healthful herbs	Euell Gibbons	1966	6
	The herb book	John B. Lust	1974	6
	Plant	David Burnie	1989	6
	How Do Apples Grow	Betsy Maestro	1992	6
	The private life of plants	David Attenborough	1995	6
	Biochemistry & molecular biology of plants	Russell L. Jones	2000	6
	What a Plant Knows	Daniel Chamovitz	1742	5
	Anatomy of seed plants	Katherine Esau	1960	5
	Plant Systematics	Michael G. Simpson	2010	5
	Flora of Java	C. A. Backer	1963	4

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

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