LibGuides: Nature & Conservation: Plant Identification

Botany Basics

In this video, you are introduced to the basics of botany. These basics can help you to identify the plants in your environment.

Botany in a Day by Thomas Elpel
Call Number: 581.634 ELP (Chatham)
ISBN: 9781892784353
Publication Date: 2013-06-15
Short cut your learning with this guide! This book helps readers to quickly identify and organize plants through the common characteristics and identification patterns.
Southern Appalachian Wildflowers by Barbara Medina; Victor Medina
Call Number: 582.13 MED (Chatham)
ISBN: 0762711353
Publication Date: 2002-05-01
Ranging from West Virginia to Alabama, Appalachia is a diverse region with over 300 different types of wildflowers. This guide will help you to identify them all.
Herbs by Lesley Bremness
Call Number: 581.63 BRE (Chatham)
ISBN: 9781564584977
Publication Date: 1994-09-15
This guide helps readers to identify herbs and describes the various uses of those herbs.
Field Guide to Medicinal Wild Plants by Bradford Angier; David K. Foster (Revised by)
Call Number: QK 99 .N67 A53 2008 (Lee & Harnett)
ISBN: 9780811734936
Publication Date: 2008-07-29
Wild plants have many uses, including medicinal ones. This guide helps readers to identify wild plants and to better understand how it has been used in medicinal ways.

North Carolina has many native plants, and the NCSeaGrants presents a series of videos that explore several of these native plants in detail.