Many Lancaster County families are already familiar with the North Museum’s natural wonders, from its live animal room to its ...

Digitally cataloguing the more than 300 million plant specimens preserved in museums worldwide could yield crucial insights into how to preserve biodiversity amid climate change, a study by McGill ...

A study led by a Florida State University researcher that was published in Nature Human Behaviour shows how colonization has contributed to the distribution of plants specimens stored in herbaria ...

In a nation where nearly as many people have a cell phone as a TV, social media has replaced social hour, and cars are on the verge of driving themselves, the centuries-old practice of collecting, ...

Some plants just sit on a windowsill, quietly existing. Others enter a room and own it. They are the horticultural equivalent of a velvet armchair or a giant piece of art. These are statement plants, ...

Samples must be accompanied by a sample submission form available at any DE Cooperative Extension Office or found here: Diagnostic form Information requested on the forms is important for diagnosis ...

The unusual or unexpected attracts interest or attention in the garden. As much as any of us recognize the value of simplifying a colour palette, limiting the number of species and cultivars, and ...

After collectors found specimens of a prickly plant in 1974 and 1990, it was wrongly identified as three different species. Now a botanist and team of researchers have identified the plant as a new, ...