Eleven months ago I began a series about wildflowers, but each column essay carried a much more important element than being just about wildflowers. I recommended specific things for you to do to ...

Modern plant classification is based on the system of binomial nomenclature developed by Swedish physician, Carl von Linne (Linnaeus) in the 1700s. Linnaeus' revolutionary approach based the ...

With their own botanical collection material and their research knowledge on the evolution of cruciferous plants (plants of the cabbage family), bioscientists at Heidelberg University have contributed ...

But in the 1730s, the self-proclaimed “prince of botany” made a contribution to taxonomy that, at the time, was just as profound as any of his other achievements. After realizing that floral sex parts ...