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by Vincent Battesti

 Member of the Society for Ethnobotany (formerly the Society for Economic Botany), from June 2026.

The Society for Ethnobotany (SEB) is for people exploring the uses of plants and the relationships among plants, cultures, and our environment. In June 2023, the Society’s name changed from the Society for Economic Botany to the Society for Ethnobotany. Ethnobotany, termed “the science of survival,” encompasses a wide variety of studies of plants’ many roles in human affairs.
St. Louis, MO.
Fostering research and education on the past, present, and future uses of plants by people.

This learned society publishes the Economic Botany journal, which became the Ethnobotany and Economic Botany journal in January 2026.

 Website: http://ethnobotany.org