This Halloween season, we’re celebrating a part of Florida’s natural history that’s often underappreciated: fungi, parasites and wasps....

The United States has lost its only stand of the massive Key Largo tree cactus in what researchers believe is…

It’s an unusual collaboration. Botanists and archaeologists don’t often work together, unless they’re studying the way people have used...

During the ice ages of the Pleistocene, the Florida peninsula regularly expanded to twice its current size as glaciers grew…

Researchers working in one of the world’s most biodiverse and threatened ecosystems have discovered a new plant species, Castela senticosa,…

Every year, the Florida Museum’s Department of Natural History awards funding for University of Florida graduate students to help cover…

The University of Florida Herbarium welcomed Alan Franck as its new collections manager earlier this month. As part of his…

Florida Museum of Natural History botanist Lucas Majure is a 2021 recipient of the University of Florida’s Excellence Award for…

Plants contain a vast array of chemical compounds, some of which can be poisonous to humans, pets and livestock. These…

Kudzu is one of the best-known weeds in the U.S. Some consider it the poster child of invasive plants –…