University’s botanic garden will use study materials created by John Stevens Henslow, the naturalist’s mentor, 200 years ago ...

With the lightest touch, this plant bursts open, flinging its seeds through the air. Here’s how it evolved this biological ...

Plants have got you surrounded. They’re in your toothpaste, your bedsheets, and your regular Taco Bell order. In this episode of Crash Course Botany, we’ll find out what botanists study and how ...

A study of Britain's native flowering plants has led to new insights into the mysterious process that allows wild plants to breed across species -- one of plants' most powerful evolutionary forces.

Plants—they’re just like us! Well, not exactly, but they do have skin and hair like us…even if they also have creepy little alien mouths. In this episode of Crash Course Botany, we’re getting up close ...

Children must be taught more about the importance of plants if education about climate change and sustainability is to be effective, experts have warned. Children must be taught more about the ...

The average person can't recognise common wildflowers, trees and non-flowering plants, making it harder to protecting our ...

This fall, five turtles poked their snouts into the same waters of the University of Chicago’s Botany Pond that they once called home. While their surroundings might have seemed familiar, the nearly ...

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 ...