"This book is dedicated to the memory of G. Ledyard Stebbins (1906-2000), who made significant contributions to understanding systematic and evolutionary botany, and who had a major influence on all ...

But in the 1730s, the self-proclaimed “prince of botany” made a contribution to taxonomy that, at the time, was just as profound as any of his other achievements. After realizing that floral sex parts ...

Cultural vegetation is defined as “vegetation with a distinctive structure, composition, and development determined by regular human activity.” Often, cultural vegetation has been planted, treated, or ...

Introduction -- The soil factor : Importance of soil to plants ; Soil defined ; The parent materials ; The organic increment ; Soil organism ; Soil moisture and air ; Soil solutes ; Soil development ; ...