An Unusual Expedition for Drought-Resistant Grasses
In the 1930s, the agricultural industry and natural environment of the United…
Ancestral Achiote
In many Caribbean and Latin American households, most of us have known…
Ancient plant DNA
Using a NYBG herbarium specimen, PhD grad student Lizzie Joyce turned back…
Aquatic Hitchhikers
Although all plants need some water to grow, aquatic plants have adapted…
Art Cronquist's Hat
If you spend time looking at herbarium specimens collected by Arthur Cronquist,…
Art Cronquist's Tree: Japanese Wingnut
Recently walking on the NYBG grounds on a lovely spring day just…
Arthonia stevensoniana
Arthonia etymology unknown stevensoniana from Stevenson, honoring Robert Louis Stevenson, author of…
Ascension Island: Volcanoes, Castaways, and Darwin’s Manmade Forest
One million years ago, a volcano broke the surface in the middle…
Astragalus osterhoutii, Osterhout milkvetch
Astragalus osterhoutii M. E. Jones (or Osterhout milkvetch) is an herbaceous plant known…
Attractive Frances Baker
This specimen arrived as part of an exchange from another herbarium, wrapped…
Augustine Henry
Augustine Henry was one of the first and most prolific western botanists to collect in Central China,…
Autumnal
Grab a warm beverage and your favorite sweater—the colors on these specimens evoke…
Ballast Plants
Ships transporting cargo and passengers use ballast to stabilize the ship at…
Banded Mottlegill
This mushroom was called 'weed Panaeolus' because it would frequently grow as…
Bassett and Celia Maguire: A Legacy in Leaves…
Bassett Maguire, born in 1904 in Alabama, rose from a curious young…
Be All My Sins Remembered
Up until this point, Ophelia has lived a rather charmed life –…
Bean-boozled
Cosmopolitan has a long-standing journalistic reputation for getting straight to the heart…
Becoming a mountain woman
Marie Mooar spent a lot of time in the wilds of western…
Before & After: P. F. Zika 28277
The unmounted herbarium specimen, as it arrived at the garden in the…
Begonias
The genus Begonia contains over 1800 species. They are native to tropical…
Being Loved To Death – A Third of…
As the many plants to be digitized in the Endless Forms project,…