Anyone who leads plant identification field trips inevitably accumulates a set of idees fixes - favorite topics which evoke favorite words and memories. These are to be brought up come hell or high ...

If you’ve tried to identify a plant using a botanical key, it can be a daunting process, full of unfamiliar terms. Gardeners can wonder, “Why is it important to understand botany?” Plant ...

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Where Have All the Botanists Gone? Krissa Skogen is a conservation scientist at the Chicago Botanic Garden, where she spends her days researching a family of plants known as the evening primrose. She ...

Under a strictly controlled environment in the Botany Greenhouse grows a sweet fern — one amongst many of its like. Every now and then it feels a hand or a tweezer poking its stalk, its weeds cleared ...