Despite the twelve volume herbarium she created, this seventeenth-century scientist earned little recognition. 

Victorian London became obsessed with Ward's cases, which protected plants from the city's toxic pollution -- and piqued peoples' imaginations.

The recent series of hurricanes has demonstrated, climate change is no longer a nebulous futuristic menace, but an existential threat.

Plants have long employed a variety of defensive strategies against herbivores, but the scope and sophistication of these defenses is still being understood.

Frederick Coville and Elizabeth White, two strangers, domesticated the blueberry together. They valued beauty and worked to support local communities.

Wax flowers were a major obsession of Victorian women, allowing them to combine art and industry.

The use of plants as indicators for specific environmental conditions

Alfred Kinsey was a professor of entomology before becoming a sexologist.

Jeanine Vélez Gavilán discusses her career in botany, her passion for endangered plants, and how climate change challenges botanists today. Visit ...