Classification is a natural human propensity—we organize our clothes, our kitchen cupboards, and our toys. This applies to the natural world, too, where animals and plants are grouped based on ...

Plant and fungus systematics and taxonomy constitute foundational disciplines that underpin our understanding of biodiversity. Historically grounded in morphological and anatomical studies, these ...

The Herbarium supports many courses, ranging from lower-level undergraduate classes through graduate-level courses, including Field Botany (BIO 155), Ecology of North America (BIO 176), Plant Biology ...

People first started classifying plants thousands of years ago. Initially, it was mainly for keeping track of plants with medicinal uses. In the Western world, plant categorization, or taxonomy, began ...

Latin might seem like an obscure, inscrutable language for naming plants. But it can open up the botanical world in ways you can’t imagine. By Margaret Roach The plants are trying to tell us something ...

Over the spring semester, students in Adam Schneider’s plant taxonomy course tackled a real-world challenge for the city of La Crosse — and the results of the experiment are in. “I found it really ...