Agriculture, Food, Botany, Ethnobotany

Subject headings like these work well to find books in the SUNY Adirondack Library.

Medicinal plants                          Agriculture                           Watermilfoil
Wild flowers                               Farms, Small                         Fruit
Pharmacognosy                          Self-reliant living                   Aquatic plants
​Materia medica                          Insects                                 Plant ecology
​Herbs Therapeutic use               Garden*                               Biological diversity
Natural products                       Woody plants                        Botany
Freshwater algae                      Endangered plants                 Water pollution
Transgenic plants                      Trees                                    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* ”.