A trip to Fire Island with Peggy Hopkins
While we might not get to summer with the likes of Madonna…
Weird & Wild Legumes
Cabinet of CuriositiesSpecimen Stories
Members of plant family Fabaceae (bean or legume family) produce a kind…
Venus flytrap
Even though Venus Fly Traps are widely available as cultivated plants, they…
Pitcher Plants
Pitcher Plants sometimes attract insects to their specialized leaves with nectar or…
Sundews
Sundews. Drosera is the largest genus of carniverous plants, with almost 200…
Becoming a mountain woman
Marie Mooar spent a lot of time in the wilds of western…
Newspaper time capsule: B. Maguire 23559
A trip to the field isn't always necessary to describe a new…
Fabian Michelangeli's field trip to Cuba, November 2013
A recent expedition to eastern Cuba took three Cuban colleagues and me…
The Cactaceae
The Cactaceae was a publication written by the founder of NYBG, Nathaniel Lord Britton…
The Language of Flowers
Throughout time, people have assigned meaning to flowers, and many cultures have…