Subject Guides: Movies With Plant and Gardening Themes: Essays, Articles on Plants

Selected Essays and Articles on Botany

How to Spend a Nice Quiet Evening with a Potato
Excerpt of an essay by Edgar Anderson that originally appeared in the Bulletin of the Missouri Botanical Garden, vol. 43, pp. 50-53, 1955.
How Flowers Changed the World
Loren Eisley
Somewhere Over the Herbarium: a Botanist Looks at the Movies
Essay by Sarah Gage and published in Botanical Electronic News #342, 2005.
Toward a Theory of Plant Blindness
Essay by James H. Wandersee and Elisabeth E. Schussler and published in Plant Science Bulletin, vol. 47(1), 2001.
The Secrets Behind Your Flowers
Chances are the bouquet you're about to buy came from Colombia. What's behind the blooms?
Bringing Biodiversity Data Online, One Leaf At A Time
Converting millions of pressed plants into a vital digital archive.