Posts in: plants
Questions you never thought to ask
Scienceline brings you the best obscure science stories from 2011
In the winter of plant taxonomy
Gerry Moore, director of science at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, has been watching the plants of the New York metropolitan move and change over the past 30 years
![Tumbleweeds on the move in Las Cruces, NM [Credit: Deni, Flickr]](http://scienceline.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/multtumbleweed-160x90.jpg)
Native plants evolve to fight off invading species
Watching grass grow just got a lot more interesting
A new use for 200-year-old pressed plants
Ecologists are looking to herbaria, the world’s historical libraries of preserved plants, to see how plants are reacting to global warming
A Rose is a Rose, Except When it’s Called Something Else
Scientists love to name species – often more than once
![More than 20 percent of world’s plant species are at risk of extinction [image: RBG Kew]](http://scienceline.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/PlantsAtRisk_sign_large-160x90.jpg)
World’s Plants Get First Checkup
Comprehensive assessment shows plant conservation goals still unmet
How Does a Venus Flytrap Work?
Digging up the secrets of a plant that senses, moves and digests without nerves, muscles or a stomach
An Interview with Jodie Holt, the Botanist Behind ‘Avatar’
Before ‘Avatar’ could hit the silver screen, it needed one plant scientist’s green thumbs up
