The most popular plants & trees books of 2026

Books on plants and trees open your eyes to the green world. Wildflowers, forests, fungi and mosses are explored, with field guides to help you name what you find and natural history that reveals how plants feed, communicate and survive. You may never walk through a wood the same way again. This list shows the ones first published in 2026.

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After the Rain
Cover of After the Rain

After the Rain

Eleanor Spicer Rice

Published 2026

40 pages

Colonial Diatoms
Cover of Colonial Diatoms

Colonial Diatoms

Mary Ann Tiffany, Mohamed Ghobara, Ille C. Gebeshuber, Florian Zischka

Published 2026

450 pages

Taxonomy and Classification of Plant Viruses and Viroids
Cover of Taxonomy and Classification of Plant Viruses and Viroids

Taxonomy and Classification of Plant Viruses and Viroids

Rasappa Viswanathan, K. Subramanya Sastry, Indranil Dasgupta, Govind P. Rao, Humberto Debat, M. N. Maruthi, A. Ishwara Bhat, V. Venkataravanappa, M Krishna Reddy

Published 2026

1478 pages