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

From sticky “flypaper” to lightning-fast suction, carnivorous plants have evolved various ingenious traps for finding the ...

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 ...

A plant thought extinct for 58 years has been found again in Australia after a chance upload to a citizen science mobile app.

Carnivorous plants look like botanical oddities, but their behavior is not a gimmick. It is a precise evolutionary solution ...

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 ...

At the Nupqu Native Plant Nursery in the Canadian province of British Columbia, sulfur buckwheat seedlings fill Styrofoam ...

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 ...