Plants & People
The Invasive Species Message That's Missing Its Audience
Tell gardeners not to plant alien species and they shrug. Give them practical advice about problem plants and they listen.
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.
Plants & People
Smells Like Green City?
Scientists reveal that the mix of plant scents and pollution in city parks shifts with location and weather, quietly shaping the benefits of a simple walk outdoors.
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
Fizz With a Conscience: Reintegrating Indigenous Knowledge Into Australia’s Native Food Industry
A vitamin-rich drink made with a native plant shows how science, law and Traditional Knowledge can combine to create healthier products while delivering real benefits to Indigenous communities.
annals-of-botany
How does fire break seed dormancy?
Fatty acid composition in seed coats is not the mechanism
Meeting Plant Scientists
Alex Bowles: on the Ordinary yet Extraordinary Life of Plants
Botany One interviews Dr Alexander Bowles, an evolutionary botanist interested in the processes that have driven plant and algae diversity
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.