Ecosystems
The Safest Place in the Pyrenees Is a Cliff Face
Century-old photographs reveal that a Spanish national park's most treacherous terrain is doing more for rare plants than a hundred years of protection.
The Week in Botany
The Week in Botany April 6, 2026
This week: the marks of footprints on lichen, difficult seeds in Chile, native knowledge adding a fizz to the drinks industry, and more.
Plant of the Week
Tulipa cypria
A plant that lives in a small part of time and space.
Puzzles
Plant Hunt
🇬🇷 A trip through some of the flora of Crete
Puzzles
Sudoku Garden
🇸🇳 Happy Birthday Senegal
Ecosystems
The Ecological Experiment 2000 Years in the Making
Thousands of megalithic jars in Laos were carved for burial rites. Two millennia later, they're miniature ecosystems, and ecologists have started taking notes.
Plants & People
Herbarium Sheets Are Holding Secrets Their Makers Never Intended
When you mount a plant on a sheet, you capture more than botany. A new paper reveals the unexpected historical treasures hiding in herbaria, and why closing them is a mistake.
Cells, Genes & Molecules
Why Would the Plant Next Door Smell Different?
Two populations of the same plant, just 4 km apart in the Italian mountains, produce different perfumes and attract different pollinators. Why?
The Week in Botany
The Week in Botany March 30, 2026
This week: the strange love lives of flowers, how healing may cause harm, connecting plants and humans, and more.
Plant of the Week
Buxbaumia viridis
It's rarely seen, but is it rare?
Puzzles
Plant Hunt
🇺🇸 What could be springing up in California?
Puzzles
Sudoku Garden
🌱 We welcome weeds