Botanist's Book Shelf: Essays, Articles, Videos and Podcasts

Excerpt of an essay by Edgar Anderson that originally appeared in the Bulletin of the Missouri Botanical Garden, vol. 43, pp. 50-53, 1955.

Loren Eisley

Essay by Sarah Gage and published in Botanical Electronic News #342, 2005.

Essay by James H. Wandersee and Elisabeth E. Schussler and published in Plant Science Bulletin, vol. 47(1), 2001.

Chances are the bouquet you're about to buy came from Colombia. What's behind the blooms?

Converting millions of pressed plants into a vital digital archive.

Kathy Willis considers our changing relationship with plants over the last 250 years - from tools to exploit, to objects of beauty, to being an essential resource we must conserve. Library has companion book. See below.