Botanists

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I Am a Botanist (And No, I Don’t Grow Marijuana)

When I tell people that I make my living in botany, they often guess at what that means. Some have no sense for the word. Others imagine me on slow strolls through meadows, sniffing wildflowers and communing with songbirds.

I also often get asked if being a botanist means that I grow marijuana.

I have been asked this by folks of all ages and statuses, from “Joe Publics” on adjacent barstools to potential donors being courted at fundraising events. Once, on an airplane, I was drawn into a long conversation with a military veteran about the efficiency of hydroponics. Another time I was invited to jump in on a land deal so that we (my potential business partner and I) could start…

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 I Am a Botanist (And No, I Don’t Grow Marijuana)

My field, botany, is a rigorous and exciting scientific discipline. It is broad and inclusive, encompassing the study of everything related to the plant kingdom, from the workings of cells and DNA to the role of plants as drivers of the planet’s ecosystem and providers of global food supplies.

A Wandering Botanist

Tales of a lover of plants, history and travel.

Adventures in Fern Biology

I research reticulate evolutionary processes, including hybridization and polyploidy, and their effects on plant systematics, genomics, and physiological ecology. I'm particularly interested in the seed-free vascular plants, ferns and lycophytes.

Awkward Botany

My name is Daniel, and I am a bona fide plant nerd. I grow plants, study plants, work with plants, and write about plants. This blog will document my plant obsession. It is for the equally plant obsessed, as well as for the plant interested and the plant curious.

Botany Blog

Plants of the Northeastern U.S.

Botany Professor

Essays, botanical travelogues, and other resources provided for students, instructors and anyone else seeking a deeper understanding of the nature of plants.

Brilliant Botany

Brilliant Botany began as a blog in November of 2011. It focused on photographs, plant facts, and plant ID. It has since expanded to include a website, social media presence and, as of 2013, a YouTube series. Brilliant Botany is intended as a resource for anyone interested in plants, and a means for building community

Get Your Botany On!

Multiple bloggers.

Go Botany

Discover thousands of New England plants.

Medicine Hunter

The three-fold purpose of Medicine Hunter Inc. is to promote natural, plant-based medicines, to protect the natural environment, and to support indigenous cultures.

Moss Plants and More

Commentary on all things Bryological.

Pl@ntNet

Pl@ntNet is a tool to help to identify plants with pictures. It is organize in different databases. Please choose the one corresponding to your location.

Plant Medicine Track

The track includes three dimensions: (1) the way social scientists and historians treat the history of psychiatry and healing, especially as it intersects with plant medicines; (2) a reflection about the substances themselves, and their effects on bodies; and (3) traditional healing, as it connects back to our understanding of drugs and of psychiatry - Bia Labate

ScienceDaily

Your source for the latest research news.

The Botanical Hiker

Adventures in hiking, wild foods, herbal medicine, and gratitude.

The Botanist in the Kitchen

Where botany meets the cutting board.

The Phytophactor

A plant pundit comments on plants, the foibles and fun of academic life, and other things of interest.

The Plant Press

The Plant Press is the quarterly newsletter from the Department of Botany and the U.S. National Herbarium. The purpose of The Plant Press is to provide information about the activities of the Department. Included are articles about staff research and travel, visitors, new publications, and plant conservation highlights.

Uncommon Ground

Academics, biodiversity, genetics, & evolution.

UW Botany

The Department of Botany promotes modern plant biology by engaging in forward-looking teaching and research, with strengths in evolution, systematics and ecology.

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