Bishop Museum is offering an updated Botany Checklist of native and non-native plants of the islands — alive and extinct — as a free resource to the public.

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, ...

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Forget your favorite flowers, because we’re talking all about the mean green sporing machines. In this episode of Crash Course Botany, we dive into the first few branches of plants’ phylogenetic ...

Glandular trichomes on the leaf tip of the sundew plant (Drosera filiformis) resemble dewdrops. In some lineages of plants, hairs do not provide protection. They function as a tool to gather essential ...

All of the different plants on Earth—from mango trees to marigolds—have come about thanks to the simple rules of genetic inheritance, which determine how traits are passed on from one generation to ...

Specimens from Anne Percoco, Parallel Botany: The Study of Imaginary Plants (2017) (courtesy the artist) In many urban areas, you’re as likely to experience representations of plants as the real thing ...