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"Prehistoric plants" as a book category covers works that explore the anatomy, evolution, ecology, and fossil record of plant life from deep geological time—before written history. Titles range from popular science overviews and richly illustrated coffee-table books to technical monographs and textbooks, and they examine subjects such as the origin of land plants, Carboniferous coal forests, Permian and Mesozoic vegetation, the rise of seed plants and angiosperms, and fossilization methods (permineralization, amber, pollen analysis). Books in this category often place plants in their paleoenvironments, showing how ancient flora interacted with climate, soils, animals, and geological processes, and they discuss the techniques paleobotanists use to reconstruct extinct species and ecosystems. Audiences include general readers fascinated by Earth's deep past, students and researchers in paleobotany and paleoecology, natural-history illustrators, and anyone interested in the evolutionary roots of modern plants and the role of vegetation in past climate change.

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