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Winter in Chicago—Get Outside!

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Solving the Decades-Long Mystery of Manu

Planting the Seeds of Conservation

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The Field Museum

The MUSHROOM HUNT! [#TeamTrees]

3 Questions with a Scientist: On Liking Lichens

Botanical illustration of a bunch of yellow flowers, with three with and pink flowers in the center. The arrangement includes golden samphires, daisies, and flea banes.

The Popular and Prolific Ms. Pratt

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In the foreground, an eye-level view of a black plastic structure holding plants. The background includes the museum's Stanley Field Hall, with two totem poles to the left and three cloud-like black plastic structures suspended from the ceiling.

Bringing the Great (Cretaceous) Outdoors Inside

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A brown lemur sitting in a tree, staring ahead with wide eyes.

Lemurs Are Weird Because Madagascar’s Fruit Is Weird

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Photo: Luca Santini

Lemurs Are Weird Because Madagascar's Fruit Is Weird

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 butterfly cocoon, and an orange and black butterfly on a purple flower.

Monarch Butterflies 101

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A plant with bright green stems and tiny yellow flowers; a plant with red fuzzy leaves

How to Steer Clear of Two Common Poisonous Plants

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Left: Wild parsnip head. Right: Poison ivy leaves may be red early in the spring.

Close-up of an orange and black butterfly perched on a group of small, unopened flowers

Milkweeds Can Save Monarchs And Beautify Your Garden

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A monarch butterfly on common milkweed

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.

Woman wearing a baseball cap and blue shirt in a rainforest-like setting, holding a large rock

Women in Science: Corine Vriesendorp, Conservation Ecologist

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A firefighter spreading controlled fire in a prairie with tall grass

Restoring Plants With Fire in Calumet

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Media

2016 By The Numbers

Monster Mystery Solved

Tully Monster reconstruction by Sean McMahon

Top 10 Science, Nature, and Culture Stories of 2016

Four dried corn cobs that are shades of purple, orange, and brown

The Amazing Journey of Maize

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Two photos side-by-side: A women sitting in front of a large drill, and a bowl with a gold bracket attached to it, for display

What's in a Name? That Which We Call a Dinosaur

Mystery of a Forgotten Botanist and a Rare Frog

Dinosaur Discovery & Updates on Cloud Rats

Campaigning for CHANGE! Don't be Shallow - Vote for Mallow

This flower only grows in the wild on a single tiny island... in Illinois.

The 300-Year Quest to Find Every Tree Species in the Amazon

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Amazonian forest in the Putumayo basin of Loreto, Peru, surveyed during a February 2016 rapid inventory by The Field Museum. Photo 

Black and white illustration of a branch with leaves and large football-shaped pods

Chocolate’s Natural Roots: The Cacao Tree

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(1660-1753). The Field Museum Library: Gen. 1707.2

Chocolate's Natural Roots: The Cacao Tree

A brown bat with long nose and wings spread out

This Mammal Pollinator Has a Nose for Flowers

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Hummingbird hovering near a plant with red flowers

Five Native Plants to Grow in Your Home Garden

Field Museum volunteers at a habitat restoration workday in 2015

Hitting the Pavement to Save Endangered Plants

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Field Museum volunteers at a workday in 2015

Restoring Habitats with Magic Beans

The 12 plants of Christmas

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Decorations in the Botany Library in 1966

Born from the Ashes

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Fungus, Family Trees, and Fatal Disease

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Jungle Atop A Desert

Evolution of Mitochondrial DNA in Ferns

Investigating the Trees of Amazonia

Into Perú

What the Function? with Smarter Every Day!

Journals of Neotropical Vascular Plant Taxonomy

Visiting the Economic Botanical Collection

How many trees are there in the Amazon?

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Field Museum Assists in Murder Investigation

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Tropical Lichen Research Featured in Scientific Business Journal

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Connecting Biodiversity Research & Collections with Curriculum

About the Botany Department

Scans of Neotropical Loranthaceae & friends

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Preparing Plants for the Herbarium

New Rapid Color Guide - Common Goldenrods of the Chicago Region

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A beautiful Fall Friday night at the museum

Science at FMNH : Ep. 33 - Floral Beaks and Flower Evolution

Science at FMNH : Ep. 32 - Floral Tubes and Flower Evolution

Science at FMNH : Ep. 31 - Floral Color and Flower Evolution

Science at FMNH : Ep. 30 - Floral Diversity and Pedicularis

Science at FMNH : Ep. 16 - Illinois 300 million years ago

Prairie Dock: Up Close and Personal

Science at FMNH : Ep. 12 - Being a Successful Scientist and Working Mom

Science at FMNH : Ep. 11 - Decomposition

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

Science at FMNH : Ep. 9 - Ascomycete Fungi

Science at FMNH : Ep. 1 - Early Land Plants

Ferns: Past and present

Bryophytes: Closest Living Relatives of Early Land Plants

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The Early Land Plants Today project (ELPT)

Engaging Chicago Communities in Climate Action Photo Gallery

The evolution of an ant-plant mutualism

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2010 REU Intern Sara Zufan

Photo Archives Botany Gallery

Pritzker DNA Lab

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Fossil Plants

Focus: Bryophytes and Pteridophytes

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Ferns & Bryophytes

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Economic Botany

Excursion to southern Thailand - February 2011

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Mycology

Focus: Seed Plants

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Seed Plants

Two visitors stand in between glasses cases in Plants of the World. They are standing to their side, looking straight forward at plant models. A replica tobacco plant is displayed in its own case at the front of the hallway.

Plants of the World

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Plants of the World 

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Thorsten Lumbsch

Rick Ree

Richard Ree

John Engel

John  Engel

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Aster Hasle

Matt von Konrat

Matthew Von Konrat

Matthew Nelsen

Solving mysteries with moss

PEET: Lasiosphaeriaceae

Costa Rican Fungi

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Mazon Creek flora

vTypes

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

Photo Archives - Botany Collection

Erythroxylum

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Collections Resource Center

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