Duke’s decision to close its herbarium threatens to uproot a legacy of scientific discovery, climate research and education that has shaped the field of botany for generations.

UC Davis postdoctoral scholar Marina LaForgia led the class "Badass Babes of Botany." (Courtesy Marina LaForgia). It’s the turn of the 19th century and botany is the only socially acceptable science ...

Plants possess extraordinary and often beautiful means of thriving in diverse environments. To explore plant structure and function in different ecosystems, and to better understand how a changing ...

Jeff “Puff” Irvin took a botany class at Iowa State University called People and Plants that may or may not have changed his life. Irvin was working as a bartender while attending school, and saw how ...

(1)THE course of work in elementary botany set forth in this book is such as to fulfil admirably the author's main object: the establishment of the fundamental principles of plant physiology; while ...