title: Lists of useful plants
text: This article 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:Edible seaweeds
  :Category:Stem vegetables
  
  Forestry
  :Category:Wood
  :Category:Shrubs
  :Category:Trees
  
  Medicine, drugs, psychoactives
  1.:Category:Medicinal plants
  2.:Category:Medicinal herbs and fungi
  3.List of Plants Used for Smoking
  
  Other economic purposes
  :Category:Crops
  :Category:Energy crops
  List of beneficial weeds
  
  References
  
  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)
  
  Useful plants
  Agriculture-related lists