An enigmatic group of fossil organisms has finally been identified—and is changing the story of how plants took root on land ...

Botanists have compiled a comprehensive, searchable checklist of 124,993 species, 6,227 genera and 355 families of vascular plants of the Americas. This represents one third of all known vascular ...

Long before modern pharmaceuticals, our ancestors turned to plants to find cures for ailments from infections to parasites to ...

Between 1881 and 1884, botanical collector Cyrus Guernsey Pringle made almost 2,700 collections of vascular plants in the western United States and Mexico. Of these, about 8%, representing 57 families ...

On a recent walk near Echo Cove, I noticed a lovely patch of a club moss sporting dozens of erect spore-bearing “cones.” We have several types of club moss here, but the only one I recognize (so far) ...

1. Three main directions of adaptive specialization are evident in the world flora, reflecting fundamental trade-offs between economics (conservative vs. acquisitive investment of resources) and size.

Leaf vasculature plays a pivotal role in nutrient transport and leaf morphology. A new study in Brassica rapa reveals the ...

Plants spreading outside their natural habitats is one of the major environmental changes caused by humans globally. Over 16,000 types of vascular plants, with special tissues to transport water and ...