Plant awareness disparity: A case for renaming plant blindness

• Published in: Plants, people, planet Vol. 2; no. 6; pp. 598 - 601
• Main Author: Parsley, Kathryn M.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Lancaster John Wiley & Sons, Inc 01.11.2020; Wiley
• Subjects: Animals; Attitudes; Biology; Biosphere; Blindness; Botany; botany education; botany outreach; Disability discrimination; Education; Handicapped accessibility; Knowledge; Learning; Literature reviews; outreach; plant blindness; plant conservation; Plant sciences; plants and society; plants and well‐being; plants versus animals; society; Teaching; University students

Societal Impact Statement “Plant blindness” is the cause of several problems that have plagued botany outreach and education for over a hundred years. The general public largely does not notice plants in their environment and therefore do not appreciate how important they are to the biosphere and so...