Carl Linnaeus's Species Plantarum is a foundational botanical work that describes and classifies all plants known at the time. It introduced binomial nomenclature, a standardized system for naming species that is still used today.
Sources for Carl Linnaeus — Species Plantarum
Carl Linnaeus — Species Plantarum in Botany
Held in the Botany chamber of the Babel Nexus Index.
- Nehemiah Grew — The Anatomy of Plants (1682)
- Asa Gray — The Elements of Botany (1887)
- Charles Darwin — Insectivorous Plants (1875)
- Charles Darwin — The Power of Movement in Plants (1880)
- Theophrastus — Enquiry into Plants (Historia Plantarum) (c. 300 BCE)
- Joseph Dalton Hooker — The Flora of British India (1872–1897)
- Stephen Hales — Vegetable Staticks (1727)