Lists of useful plants

The maguey was cultivated by the Aztecs for its numerous uses including construction, fibre, hedging and production of the sacred drink pulque.

This page contains a list of useful plants, meaning a plant that has been or can be co-opted by humans to fulfill a particular need. Rather than listing all plants on one page, this page instead collects the lists and categories for the different ways in which a plant can be used; some plants may fall into several of the categories or lists below, and some lists overlap (for example, the term "crop" covers both edible and non-edible agricultural products).

Edible plants

• Category:Edible plants
  • Category:Cereals
  • List of edible flowers
  • Category:Forages
  • Category:Grains
  • Category:Spices
  • List of culinary herbs and spices

Fruits and vegetables

• Category:Fruit
  • Category:Edible nuts and seeds
• Category:Vegetables
  • Category:Inflorescence vegetables
  • Category:Leaf vegetables
  • Category:Root vegetables
  • Category:Sea vegetables
  • Category:Stem vegetables

Forestry

• Category:Wood
  • Category:Shrubs
  • Category:Trees

Medicine, drugs, psychoactives

• Category:Medicinal plants
  • Category:Medicinal herbs and fungi
    • List of Plants Used for Smoking

Other economic purposes

• Category:Crops
  • Category:Energy crops
• List of beneficial weeds

External links

• Plants For A Future
• Permaculture Information Web
• Plant Resources of Tropical Africa (PROTA)
• Handbook of Energy Crops
• Lost Crops of Africa: Volume 1: Grains
• Lost Crops of the Incas
• Bibliography on underutilized roots and tubers crops
• Australian New Crops Web Site
• Plant Resources of South East Asia (PROSEA)
• Global Facilitation Unit for Underutilized Species
• UN Centre for the Alleviation of Poverty through Secondary Crops' Development in Asia and the Pacific (UNCAPSA)
• Traditional African Vegetables
• ECHO (Educational Concerns for Hunger Organization)