Flower and Plant lore
1. 
The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate: Discoveries from a Secret World
by:
Peter Wohlleben
4.07 avg rating — 84,767 ratings 
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Wicked Plants: The Weed That Killed Lincoln's Mother and Other Botanical Atrocities
by:
Amy Stewart
3.82 avg rating — 10,911 ratings 
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Pumpkin: The Curious History of an American Icon (Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books)
by:
Cindy Ott
3.60 avg rating — 116 ratings 
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All Plants Are Edible Once: The Stories of Wild Edible and Medicinal Plants 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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The Drunken Botanist: The Plants That Create the World's Great Drinks
by:
Amy Stewart
4.02 avg rating — 10,453 ratings 13. 
The Food Explorer: The True Adventures of the Globe-Trotting Botanist Who Transformed What America Eats
by:
Daniel Stone
3.94 avg rating — 3,596 ratings 
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Plant Lore, Legends, and Lyrics : Embracing the Myths, Traditions, Superstitions, and Folk-Lore of the Plant Kingdom
by:
Richard Folkard
3.85 avg rating — 20 ratings 16. 
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The Witch and the Wildwood: Folk Wisdom, Fairy Tale & Fantastic Lore
by:
Sarah Robinson
4.18 avg rating — 34 ratings 
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The Joy of Forest Bathing: Reconnect With Wild Places & Rejuvenate Your Life (Volume 4) (Live Well, 4) 3.72 avg rating — 323 ratings
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The Secrets of Wildflowers: A Delightful Feast of Little-Known Facts, Folklore, and History
by:
Jack Sanders
4.31 avg rating — 58 ratings 23. 
The Miraculous Fever-Tree: Malaria, Medicine and the Cure that Changed the World
by:
Fiammetta Rocco
3.84 avg rating — 284 ratings 
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Storyology Essays in Folk-Lore, Sea-Lore, and Plant-Lore
by:
Benjamin Taylor
3.67 avg rating — 9 ratings 27. 
The History and Folklore of North American Wildflowers
by:
Timothy Coffey
4.23 avg rating — 13 ratings 27. 
Apricot village: Further reminiscences of the Aynho gardener it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 3 ratings
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The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World
by:
Michael Pollan
4.06 avg rating — 58,652 ratings 
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The Tree That Owns Itself: And Other Adventure Tales from Out of the Past 3.89 avg rating — 28 ratings
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For All the Tea in China: Espionage, Empire and the Secret Formula for the World's Favourite Drink
by:
Sarah Rose
3.78 avg rating — 4,227 ratings 32. 
Kew: The Witch's Garden: Plants in Folklore, Magic and Traditional Medicine
by:
Sandra Lawrence
4.11 avg rating — 467 ratings 
36. 
Dispatches from the Land of Flowers: A Snake Man, a Sad Poet, a Lightning Stalker and Other Stories About Real Florida
by:
Jeff Klinkenberg
4.24 avg rating — 17 ratings 
36. 
Death in the Garden: Poisonous Plants and Their Use Throughout History
by:
Michael Brown
3.69 avg rating — 106 ratings 
41. 
The Language of Plants: A Guide to the Doctrine of Signatures
by:
Julia Graves
4.25 avg rating — 60 ratings 41. 
The Potato: How the Humble Spud Rescued the Western World
by:
Larry Zuckerman
3.61 avg rating — 556 ratings 
41. 
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants 4.52 avg rating — 158,457 ratings
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Floriography: An Illustrated Guide to the Victorian Language of Flowers
by:
Jessica Roux
4.53 avg rating — 3,720 ratings 
46. 
Sex, Botany, and Empire: The Story of Carl Linnaeus and Joseph Banks (Revolutions in Science)
by:
Patricia Fara
3.38 avg rating — 202 ratings 
49. 
The Triumph of Seeds: How Grains, Nuts, Kernels, Pulses, and Pips Conquered the Plant Kingdom and Shaped Human History
by:
Thor Hanson
4.10 avg rating — 3,014 ratings 
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Southern Folk Medicine: Healing Traditions from the Appalachian Fields and Forests
by:
Phyllis D. Light
4.19 avg rating — 171 ratings 53. 
Flora of Middle-Earth: Plants of J.R.R. Tolkien's Legendarium
by:
Walter S. Judd
4.39 avg rating — 160 ratings 
55. 
Britain's Rare Flowers (A Volume in the Poyser Natural History Series)
by:
Peter Marren
4.67 avg rating — 6 ratings 57. 
Corn Palaces and Butter Queens: A History of Crop Art and Dairy Sculpture 3.37 avg rating — 19 ratings
59. 
Johnny Appleseed: The Man, the Myth, the American Story
by:
Howard Means
3.23 avg rating — 248 ratings 
63. 
Garlic, an Edible Biography: How the World's Most Pungent Food Changed the Course of History, Medicine, and Cuisine
by:
Robin Cherry
3.65 avg rating — 106 ratings 64. 
Seedtime: On the History, Husbandry, Politics and Promise of Seeds
by:
Scott Chaskey
4.02 avg rating — 52 ratings 65. 
Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science
by:
Marc Aronson
3.67 avg rating — 1,469 ratings 
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Mountain Spirits: A Chronicle of Corn Whiskey and the Southern Appalachian Moonshine Tradition 3.95 avg rating — 58 ratings
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The Reason for Flowers: Their History, Culture, Biology, and How They Change Our Lives
by:
Stephen Buchmann
3.68 avg rating — 510 ratings 70. 
Ginseng, the Divine Root: The Curious History of the Plant That Captivated the World
by:
David A. Taylor
3.55 avg rating — 58 ratings 71. 
The Mushroom Hunters: On the Trail of an Underground America
by:
Langdon Cook
3.89 avg rating — 1,385 ratings 72. 
The wondrous mushroom: Mycolatry in Mesoamerica: Ethnomycological studies
by:
R. Gordon Wasson
4.34 avg rating — 38 ratings 73. 
Plants of the Gods: Their Sacred, Healing, and Hallucinogenic Powers 4.38 avg rating — 1,439 ratings
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The Curious World of Wine: Facts, Legends, and Lore About the Drink We Love So Much
by:
Richard Vine
3.47 avg rating — 57 ratings 76. 
On Food and Cooking: The Science and Lore of the Kitchen
by:
Harold McGee
4.46 avg rating — 16,092 ratings 77. 
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Weeds: How Vagabond Plants Gatecrashed Civilisation and Changed the Way We Think About Nature
by:
Richard Mabey
3.83 avg rating — 951 ratings 80. 
Plants Have So Much to Give Us, All We Have to Do Is Ask: Anishinaabe Botanical Teachings 4.69 avg rating — 285 ratings
81. 
Seeds of Hope: Wisdom and Wonder from the World of Plants
by:
Jane Goodall
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1,579 ratings 82. 
The Jaguar that Roams the Mind: An Amazonian Plant Spirit Odyssey
by:
Robert Tindall
4.16 avg rating — 77 ratings 
84. 
Forest Bathing Retreat: Find Wholeness in the Company of Trees
by:
Hannah Fries
4.19 avg rating — 208 ratings 85. 
Ten Drugs: How Plants, Powders, and Pills Have Shaped the History of Medicine
by:
Thomas Hager
4.18 avg rating — 5,017 ratings 86. 
Honey, Mud, Maggots and Other Medical Marvels: The Science Behind Folk Remedies and Old Wives' Tales 3.73 avg rating — 227 ratings
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American Eden: David Hosack, Botany, and Medicine in the Garden of the Early Republic
by:
Victoria Johnson
4.03 avg rating — 1,191 ratings 88. 
Drug Hunters: The Improbable Quest to Discover New Medicines
by:
Donald R. Kirsch
4.26 avg rating — 1,201 ratings 89. 
Women Healers of the World: The Traditions, History, and Geography of Herbal Medicine
by:
Holly Bellebuono
4.12 avg rating — 89 ratings 90. 
Tales of a Shaman's Apprentice: An Ethnobotanist Searches for New Medicines in the Amazon Rain Forest
by:
Mark J. Plotkin
4.28 avg rating — 2,026 ratings 91. 
Signs, Cures, and Witchery: German Appalachian Folklore
by:
Gerald C. Milnes
4.19 avg rating — 52 ratings 92. 
The Mold in Dr. Florey's Coat: The Story of the Penicillin Miracle
by:
Eric Lax
3.98 avg rating — 507 ratings 93. 
The Plant Hunters: The Adventures of the World's Greatest Botanical Explorers
by:
Carolyn Fry
3.93 avg rating — 89 ratings 94. 
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Pumpkin, Pumpkin: Folklore, History, Planting Hints and Good Eating
by:
Anne Copeland
3.69 avg rating — 39 ratings 
