Botany

The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to botany: Botany – biological discipline which involves the study of plants. Bud Cell wall Chlorophyll Chloroplast Flora Flower Fruit Forest Leaf Meristem Photosynthesis Plant Plant cell Pollen Seed Seedling Spore Tree Vine Wood Branches of botany Agronomy Bryology (mosses and liverworts) Dendrology (woody plants) Ethnobotany Lichenology (lichens) Mycology (fungi) Paleobotany Palynology (spores and pollen) Phycology (algae) Phytosociology Plant anatomy Plant ecology Plant evolution Plant morphology Plant pathology Plant physiology Plant taxonomy Pteridology (ferns) History of botany History of plant systematics Algae Cyanobacteria Brown algae Charophyta Chlorophyta Desmid Diatom Red algae Green algae Bryophytes Anthocerotophyta (hornworts) Bryophyta (mosses) Marchantiophyta (liverworts) Pteridophytes Lycopodiophyta (club mosses) Pteridophyta (ferns & horsetails) Rhyniophyta (early plants) Gymnosperms Pteridospermatophyta (seed "ferns") Cycadophyta Ginkgophyta Gnetophyta Pinophyta (conifers) Angiosperms Dicotyledon Asteraceae (sunflower family) Cactaceae (cactus family) Fabaceae (legume family) Lamiaceae (mint family) Rosaceae (rose family) Monocotyledon Araceae (arum family) Arecaceae (palm family) Iridaceae (iris family) Orchidaceae (orchid family) Poaceae (grass family) List of culinary fruits List of edible seeds List of culinary herbs and spices List of culinary nuts List of vegetables List of woods Plant taxonomy Cultivated plant taxonomy List of systems of plant taxonomy Clades Monophyletic Polyphyletic Speciation Isolating mechanisms Concept of species Species problem In alphabetical order by surname: Aristotle Arthur Cronquist (angiosperm evolution) Charles Darwin (formulated modern theory of evolution) Carl Linnaeus (father of systematics) Gregor Mendel (father of genetics) John Ray G. Ledyard Stebbins (angiosperm evolution) Theophrastus (uses and classification) Robert Thorne (angiosperm evolution) Gilbert White List of Russian bota