Botany 

Welcome to the ACC Library's research guide for botany topics!

Here are some recenly purchased botany books:

NetLibrary is a small collection of about 5000 full-text, electronic books. You may view the chapters of the books online. Books range from classic novels to recent books on technology and include reference books. ACC students, faculty and staff may search this from off-campus.

Project Gutenberg is the oldest producer of free electronic books on the Internet. This collection contains more than 15,000 eBooks. Most are older literary works that are in the public domain in the United States. All may be freely downloaded, read and redistributed for non-commercial use.

LibriVox  offers free audio books downloadable to your IPod. Books are classic novels, etc. that are in public domain; books are read by volunteers.

Find these books on the main floor of the ACC Library. They cannot be borrowed, but are always in the library to use.

The shrub identification book: the visual method for the practical identification of shrubs, including woody vines and ground covers (by George Symonds)
REF. QK 482 .S89 1963 (also a Circulating copy)

The tree identification book: a new method for the practical identification and recognition of trees (by George Symonds)
REF. QK 482 .S9 2003 (also a Circulating copy)

Encyclopedia of Biodiversity
REF. QH 541.15 .B56 E53 2001

The Penguin Dictionary of Plant Sciences
REF. QK 9 .P465 1999

Encyclopedia of Edible Plants of North America
REF. QK 98.5 .N57 C68 1998

Encyclopedia of Psychoactive Plants
REF. QK 99 .A1 .R2813 2005

A Modern Herbal (medicinal, culinary, folk-lore of plants, more)
REF. QK 99 .A1 G74 1982

Flora of North America (2 volumes)
REF. QK 110 .F55 1993

Peterson Field Guides: Eastern Trees
REF. QK 115 P46 1998

Newcomb’s Wildflower Guide
REF. QK 118 .N42

Weeds of the Northeast
REF. QK 118 .U93 1997

Wildflowers of Maine, New Hampshire,  and Vermont In Color
REF. QK 164 .W56 2000

Mushrooms (Peterson Field Guides)
REF. QK 617 .L248 1998

Pharmacodynamic Basis of Herbal Medicine
REF. RM 666 .H33 E23 2002

PDR for Herbal Medicine
REF. RM 666 .H33 P37 2004

Forest Conservation Policy: A Reference Handbook
REF. SD 412 .S26 2004

You can borrow many circulating books on these topics. The library also owns books on ornamental and garden plants, plant breeding, trees and shrubs, perennials, pests and diseases, and more. Search the Book Catalog above for more.

Julia Morton's 1987 book Fruits of Warm Climates has chapters on pineapples, bananas, figs and much more. Purdue University offers it free online: http://www.hort.purdue.edu/newcrop/morton/index.html

Subject headings like these work well to find books in the SUNY Adirondack Library. Copy and paste them into the Book Catalog link above!:

Trees
Woody plants
Wild flowers
Watermilfoil
Fruit
Aquatic plants
Medicinal plants
Plant ecology
Biological diversity
Botany
Freshwater algae
Endangered plants
Water pollution
Transgenic plants
Plant genetic engineering

- Use “and” to combine two subjects, such as: trees and New York.
- Use truncation to find various “wildcard” endings: herb* will retrieve herb, herbs, herbal, etc.
- Make sure to also see the Gardening research guide!   

• Plant identification guides: The library owns many field guides: eastern U.S. trees, wild flowers, weeds of the Northeast, seeds, ferns, grasses, mushrooms and more. Search for terms such as “wild flowers” (note: it’s two words, not one!) , or a more precise search with truncation, such as “Wild flowers and identif* ”.

• Uncertain peril: genetic engineering and the future of seeds (S 494.5.B563 C86 2008)
• Seeds for the future: the impact of genetically modified crops on the environment (SB 123.57 .T494 2007)
• Genetically modified crops (SB 123.57 .H35 2003)
• Diseases of trees and shrubs (SB 762 .S56 2005)
• It's a long road to a tomato: Tales of an organic farmer ... (S 605.5 .S85 2006)
• Field guide to wild mushrooms of Pennsylvania and the Mid-Atlantic (QK 605.5.P4 R87 2006)
• Armitage’s native plants for North American gardens (SB 439.26.N7 A76 2006)

Need more? See Finding Books.