Other year-end selections are much larger than a zombie mushroom. In Peru, researchers described an acanth shrub that reaches ...

Botanical Tales and Seeds of Empire” confront the imperial roots of its botanical collections and challenge long-held ...

This fall, five turtles poked their snouts into the same waters of the University of Chicago’s Botany Pond that they once called home. While their surroundings might have seemed familiar, the nearly ...

Welcome to the Department of Botany at the University of Wyoming. We conduct fundamental scholarship on plants and other organisms, within populations, communities, and ecosystems. Our faculty members ...

Plant science holds a special place at Connecticut College. Here, botany is its own department, distinct from biology. Major in botany and you have unparalleled study and research opportunities.

Cranberries are a staple in U.S. households at Thanksgiving – but how did this bog dweller end up on holiday tables? Cranberry cultivation began in 1816 in Massachusetts, where Revolutionary War ...

Despite the desert environment of the Coachella Valley, most of the landscaping here is predominantly made up of non-native and even tropical plants. Although aesthetically pleasing, these plants, ...