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• botanical garden, originally, a collection of living plants designed chiefly to illustrate relationships within plant groups. In modern times, most botanical gardens are concerned primarily with exhibiting ornamental plants, insofar as possible in a scheme that emphasizes natural relationships. Thus, the two functions are blended: eye appeal and taxonomic order.

• Artwork is always scientifically and botanically correct but not necessarily complete. More emphasis is placed on the aesthetic value of the plant or flower but without the requirement for ALL the information required by the botanists.
• Artwork is frequently in colour (on a plain background). It may also include a record of the plant growing in its natural habitat. Botanical art may form part of a project and contribute to a flora - records made of plants in a geographical location or garden.

• a branch of biology dealing with plant life

Use for: Economic Botany

• a division of botany that deals with the utilization of plants

• Here are entered works on the discipline of medical botany. Works on the description and/or the cultivation of medicinal plants are entered under [Medicinal plants.]

Use for: plant diseases, plant pathology, phytopathology

• a branch of botany concerned with the diseases of plants

Use for: plant hunting, plant collecting

• The acquisition of plant specimens for the purposes of research, cultivation, or as a hobby. Plant specimens may be kept alive, but are more commonly dried and pressed to preserve the quality of the specimen.

Use for: Cruciferae

• Family of flowering plants (order Brassicales). The family includes many plants of economic importance that have been extensively altered and domesticated by humans, especially those of the genus Brassica, which includes cabbage, broccoli, Brussels sprouts, kale, kohlrabi, napa cabbage, turnip, and rutabaga.
• Other important agricultural crops in the family include horseradish, radish, and white mustard. A number of species—such as basket-of-gold, candytuft, and honesty—are grown as ornamentals, and some members of the family are considered invasive species in regions outside their native range.

• structure that spans horizontally between supports, whose function is to carry vertical loads.
• a structure carrying a pathway or roadway over a depression or obstacle (such as a river)

• A plant family. Members of Bromeliaceae are herbaceous evergreen perennials with simple spirally arranged leaves. Commonly known as the pineapple family.