They never found the fabled Northwest Passage – a river route believed to connect the Atlantic and Pacific oceans – but they did collect over 200 plant specimens, 94 of which were new to ...

Scientists discovered a 400-million-year-old fossil known as Prototaxites, which does not belong to any known life form ...

The Theodore Klein Plant Awards have announced six award-winning plants selected for ornamental appeal, adaptability, and ecological compatibility.

A dense shrub with light purple flowers found in the Agasthyamala Biosphere Reserve in Kerala’s Thiruvananthapuram district has been confirmed as a distinct species of the genus Uniyala. The ...

To fill in the gaps in the fossil record, Labandeira and his colleagues recently analyzed more than a hundred sprawling datasets of insect-damaged plant specimens. Their findings, published last ...

Kress and Krupnick used the dataset from this prior study and analyzed nearly 10,000 Heliconia specimens. Many of these dried plants, which Kress collected, were housed in the museum’s herbarium ...