Pressed plant specimens collected centuries ago and stored in herbaria around the world could play a key role in facilitating ...
Here in the East Gulf Coastal Plain, one of North America’s premier and most imperiled regions for botanical biodiversity, Florida State University is leading an ambitious project that will create ...
Matthew Austin, curator of biodiversity data at the Missouri Botanical Garden, looks through Dogwood tree samples in the herbarium.. Austin’s research shows Dogwood trees are blooming earlier in the ...
Somewhere in the red dust of inland Australia, a small plant with woolly, bottlebrush-like flower spikes has been quietly ...
Digitally cataloguing the more than 300 million plant specimens preserved in museums worldwide could yield crucial insights into how to preserve biodiversity amid climate change, a study by McGill ...
Recently, we focused on three basic priorities for landscaping: develop a short list of plants, install significant numbers of each kind of plant, and select some unfamiliar plants that will fit into ...
Museum plant specimen belongs to a new genus that honors the pioneering research of longtime curator Vicki Funk Emily Driehaus With more than 148 million specimens and objects in its collection, the ...
A single non-photosynthetic plant specimen preserved in a Japanese natural history museum has been identified as a new species. However, it is highly possible that this species is already extinct. A ...