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3 Questions with a Scientist: On Liking Lichens

Dried prairie thistle plant specimen attached to paper.

DIY Plant Pressing

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Field Museum specimen of Hill’s thistle (Cirsium hillii) found in Elgin, Illinois, in 1918.

A bee perched on a light blue-green plant with round buds. The background is an out-of-focus green prairie.

Planting Your Native Garden

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A bee perches on a rattlesnake master, a perennial plant that's native to Illinois.

A bright orange and black butterfly on a purple flower with yellow center

Five Reasons to Add Native Plants to Your Garden

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A monarch butterfly on a New England Aster.

Hummingbird hovering near a plant with red flowers

Five Native Plants to Grow in Your Home Garden

Born from the Ashes

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Evolution of Mitochondrial DNA in Ferns

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3D X-Ray Microtomography Reconstructions

Scans of Neotropical Loranthaceae & friends

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Science at FMNH : Ep. 10 - Sexual and Asexual Reproduction in Fungi

Science at FMNH : Ep. 1 - Early Land Plants

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Ferns: Past and present

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Jewish Botany: Plant Medicine and Magic in the Jewish Diaspora

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Thorsten Lumbsch

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Felix Grewe

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Richard Ree

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Wyatt Gaswick

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Matthew Von Konrat

Chrissy Christian

Matthew Nelsen

How moss helped solve a grave-robbing mystery

Solving mysteries with moss

PEET: Lasiosphaeriaceae

Costa Rican Fungi

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Illinois Woodland diorama photo made in 1985 by Ron Testa, B83204c.

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Erythroxylum

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