Plants are being used to help solve crimes. The pollen and seed s they can leave behind can often become key pieces of evidence. But, how does this all work? While plants aren’t able to testify in ...

Under a strictly controlled environment in the Botany Greenhouse grows a sweet fern — one amongst many of its like. Every now and then it feels a hand or a tweezer poking its stalk, its weeds cleared ...

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Plants have got you surrounded. They’re in your toothpaste, your bedsheets, and your regular Taco Bell order. In this episode of Crash Course Botany, we’ll find out what botanists study and how ...

Forget your favorite flowers, because we’re talking all about the mean green sporing machines. In this episode of Crash Course Botany, we dive into the first few branches of plants’ phylogenetic ...

Glandular trichomes on the leaf tip of the sundew plant (Drosera filiformis) resemble dewdrops. In some lineages of plants, hairs do not provide protection. They function as a tool to gather essential ...