Learn to recognize individual plants like an old friend

Learning botany can tremendously deepen your relationship and understanding of the plants you work with.

By the end of this course, you will be able to identify the plants you work with regularly out of the corner of your eye, and even from a moving vehicle!

But even more importantly, you will develop a rich new understanding of your own personal relationship with plants, your practice of herbalism will deepen, and your connection to the earth will take on a whole new meaning.

Learn to Identify Plants Accurately

In this course, we'll work through three stages of learning to accurately identify plants.

  • Seeing Clearly

    First, we need to learn to really SEE the plants we're looking at, and to understand their anatomy (and physiology!)

  • Seeing Connections

    Next, we'll learn about plant families - which are just like human families! This is the way that we group similar plants so that it's easier to know what we're looking at.

  • Seeing Individuals

    Finally, we'll learn how to differentiate the individual plants in each family.

Get In Early!

We are building this course throughout the 2019 growing season, and you can build your knowledge while we do! This winter, the course will open to everyone, but you can sign up now for a special early-bird price of only $75! 

We expect the final price to be about $200, but if you'd like to join now, you'll get a huge discount. 

Each month, new material will be added so that you can work with new plants and plant families all through the 2019 growing season.

Course curriculum

    1. Welcome to Botany for Herbalists!

    2. Live Q&A sessions twice a week!

    3. How many hours is this course?

    4. How to use this platform

    5. The "What's New" button on your dashboard

    6. How to use the Discussions feature

    7. Meet our Friends!

    8. Chatting in the Community Space

    9. Use of Course Material (Intellectual Property)

    10. Every Body is Different

    11. Learning to Identify Plants

    1. A sea of individuals

    2. Seeing plants up close

    3. Looking closely at Deadnettle

    4. Looking closely at Starflower

    5. Looking closely at Chamomile

    1. The parts of plants

    2. Properties of Stems/Stalks

    3. jim mcdonald on botanical terms

    4. Properties of Flowers

    5. Properties of Leaves

    6. Putting the Parts together

    1. Plant Physiology

    2. Plant Physiology (and what it can teach us about ourselves!)

    1. Understanding Scientific Names

    2. Decoding Botanical Latin

    3. Thoughts on Rosemary's name change

    4. Glossary of Latin Names

    1. This course is in progress!

About this course

  • $75.00
  • 49 lessons
  • 3.5 hours of video content

Deepen your relationship

Learn botany and find a whole new way of relating to the plants you work with to stay healthy!

I want to learn botany!