Alice Eastwood
Alice Eastwood was a self-taught Canadian-American botanist. After graduating from high school…
Aloe: The Plant of Many Wonders
Aloe vera is one of the over 300 species of Aloe belonging…
Alpine Adaptation: Dig-Down & Stand Your Ground
Extreme conditions at high-elevations tend to impede the establishment of annual plants…
Alpine Adaptation: Duck and Cover
Leaves and flowering stems flattened to the ground and outwardly spreading from…
Alpine Adaptation: Hold Tight & Take It Slow
These prototypical "cushion plants" are extreme alpine specialists. Short and dense branching…
Alpine Adaptation: Red is the New Black
Hairs are one way to deflect damaging UV radiation while locking in…
Alpine Adaptation: Solid As A Rock
Lichens are the primary colonizers of new habitat in alpine regions. Unlike…
Alpine Adaptation: Stay Shaggy!
Temperatures may be low but sun-exposure is extremely intense at high-elevations due…
Alpine Invaders
Climate Change can negatively impact Alpine regions by making them more susceptible…
Alpine Meadows
Alpine meadows exist where soils have deepened and matured through centuries of…
Alpine Refugia
Mountaintops have served as unlikely shelter for populations of cold-adapted species throughout…
An Unrequited Botanical Love Story
The love of botany is responsible for both fostering and hindering this…
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,…
Beware! Stranglers on the Loose!
Focus on ScienceCabinet of Curiosities
Meet the genus Cuscuta, or as I like to refer to them,…
Bigelow's mushroom photographs
In the herbarium of the New York Botanical Garden there are over 30,000…
Biocrusts in Disturbed Areas
Our crusty companions play many imperative restoration roles in disturbed habitats, as…
Biocrusts of Cold Drylands
The default image that comes to mind when thinking of deserts is…
Biocrusts of Hot Drylands
Hot deserts are found on all continents except Antarctica and Europe. In…
Bioremediation
Bioremediation is the use of living organisms to remove contamination from the…
Black Botany: The Nature of Black Experience
Black Botany: The Nature of Black Experience seeks to acknowledge the complex…
Black Pepper: King of Spices
It’s hard to imagine entering a diner, sitting down on the shiny…