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

Fruits and Vegetables

• :Category:Fruit
  • :Category:Accessory fruit
  • :Category:Edible nuts and seeds
  • :Category:Legumes

• :Category:Vegetables
  • :Category:Inflorescence vegetables
  • :Category:Leaf vegetables
  • :Category:Root vegetables
  • :Category:Sea vegetables
  • :Category:Stem vegetables

Medicine, Drugs, Psychoactives, etc.

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

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)