Overview

The Society for Ethnobotany (SEB) is about people exploring the uses of, and our relationship with plants, cultures and our environment—plants and human affairs. You might well call our research and educational efforts, the science of survival. We were established in 1959 and our mission is to foster and encourage scientific research, education, and related activities on the past, present, and future uses of plants, and the relationship between plants and people, and to make the results of such research available to the scientific community and the general public through meetings and publications. Membership in SEB is open to all individuals interested in economic botany and in the promotion of research in this field. With members from across the 50 U.S. states and more than 64 countries around the globe, SEB serves as the world's largest and most-respected professional society for individuals who are concerned with basic botanical, phytochemical and ethnological studies of plants known to be useful or those which may have potential uses so far undeveloped. It is recognized that the field of economic botany includes all or parts of many established disciplines such as: agronomy, anthropology, archaeology, chemistry, economics, ethnobotany, ethnology, forestry, genetic resources, geography, geology, horticulture, medicine, microbiology, nutrition, pharmacognosy, and pharmacology, in addition to the established botanical disciplines.