The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to botany:

Botany – biological discipline which involves the study of plants.

Core concepts of botany

• Bud
• Cell wall
• Chlorophyll
• Chloroplast
• Flora
• Flower
• Fruit
• Forest
• Leaf
• Meristem
• Photosynthesis
• Plant
• Plant cell
• Pollen
• Seed
• Seedling
• Spore
• Tree
• Vine
• Wood

Subdisciplines of botany

Branches of botany

• Agronomy
• Bryology (mosses and liverworts)
• Dendrology (woody plants)
• Ethnobotany
• Lichenology (lichens)
• Mycology (fungi)
• Paleobotany
• Palynology (spores and pollen)
• Phycology (algae)
• Phytosociology
• Plant anatomy
• Plant ecology
• Plant evolution
• Plant morphology
• Plant pathology
• Plant physiology
• Plant taxonomy
• Pteridology (ferns)

History of botany

• History of botany
• History of plant systematics

Kinds of plants

Major plant groups

• Algae
  • Cyanobacteria
  • Brown algae
  • Charophyta
  • Chlorophyta
  • Desmid
  • Diatom
  • Red algae
  • Green algae
• Bryophytes
  • Anthocerotophyta (hornworts)
  • Bryophyta (mosses)
  • Marchantiophyta (liverworts)
• Pteridophytes
  • Lycopodiophyta (club mosses)
  • Pteridophyta (ferns & horsetails)
  • Rhyniophyta (early plants)
• Gymnosperms
  • Pteridospermatophyta (seed "ferns")
  • Cycadophyta
  • Ginkgophyta
  • Gnetophyta
  • Pinophyta (conifers)
• Angiosperms
  • Dicotyledon
    • Asteraceae (sunflower family)
    • Cactaceae (cactus family)
    • Fabaceae (legume family)
    • Lamiaceae (mint family)
    • Rosaceae (rose family)
  • Monocotyledon
    • Araceae (arum family)
    • Arecaceae (palm family)
    • Iridaceae (iris family)
    • Orchidaceae (orchid family)
    • Poaceae (grass family)

Some well-known plants

• List of culinary fruits
• List of edible seeds
• List of culinary herbs and spices
• List of culinary nuts
• List of vegetables
• List of woods

General plant species concepts

• Plant taxonomy
  • Cultivated plant taxonomy
  • List of systems of plant taxonomy
• Clades
  • Monophyletic
  • Polyphyletic
• Speciation
• Isolating mechanisms
• Concept of species
  • Species problem

Notable botanists

In alphabetical order by surname:

• Aristotle
• Arthur Cronquist (angiosperm evolution)
• Charles Darwin (formulated modern theory of evolution)
• Carl Linnaeus (father of systematics)
• Gregor Mendel (father of genetics)
• John Ray
• G. Ledyard Stebbins (angiosperm evolution)
• Theophrastus (uses and classification)
• Robert Thorne (angiosperm evolution)
• Gilbert White
• List of Russian botanists

Scholarly societies

• American Society of Plant Biologists