Missouri Botanical Garden researcher Dr. Carmen Ulloa is the lead author of "An Integrated Assessment of Vascular Plant Species of the Americas," published today in Science. Ulloa along with 23 ...

Seven to nine percent of all vascular plant species occurring in Europe are threatened. This is the result of a study led by the German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv), the Martin ...

The origin of vascular plants, more than 400 million years ago, changed the surface of our planet forever. The origin of vascular plants, more than 400 million years ago, changed the surface of our ...

A team of 24 researchers pulled together information from plant checklists across the two continents and added it to the Tropicos database. With the details of all of the species in one place, ...

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 ...

The Turrell Herbarium (MU) contains a geographically and taxonomically broad collection of approximately 340,000 accessioned specimens (with approximately 20,000 currently being cataloged). Though the ...

[Ben Krasnow] has a knack for showing us what’s inside of things while they’re moving. This week’s Applied Science experiment has him making time-lapse X-ray videos of things. This plant’s vascular ...

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 ...