Whether it rains or shines this Easter, the long weekend will find me crouching in the garden, grimly excavating the ground elder with which my patch is infested.

Under a strictly controlled environment in the Botany Greenhouse grows a sweet fern — one amongst many of its like. Every now and then it feels a hand or a tweezer poking its stalk, its weeds cleared ...

University’s botanic garden will use study materials created by John Stevens Henslow, the naturalist’s mentor, 200 years ago ...

Experience the fascinating journey of a plant growing from seed to vibrant full bloom in just 103 days with this detailed ...

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 ...

In this episode we’ll explore the earliest plants: bryophytes and seedless vascular plants Forget your favorite flowers, because we’re talking all about the mean green sporing machines. In this ...

Plants have got you surrounded. They’re in your toothpaste, your bedsheets, and your regular Taco Bell order. In this episode of Crash Course Botany, we’ll find out what botanists study and how ...

Experience the remarkable journey of a cotton plant in this detailed time-lapse video. Follow the cotton plant’s entire life ...

Glandular trichomes on the leaf tip of the sundew plant (Drosera filiformis) resemble dewdrops. In some lineages of plants, hairs do not provide protection. They function as a tool to gather essential ...

With the lightest touch, this plant bursts open, flinging its seeds through the air. Here’s how it evolved this biological mechanism — and more importantly, why.