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Meet Chicago's Native Bees

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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.

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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

The Early Land Plants Today project (ELPT)

Plants & Fungi

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Botany and Mycology

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Richard Ree

Christine Niezgoda

Lucia Kawasaki

Yarency Rodriguez

Kimberly Hansen

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Darlene Dowdy-Pritchett

John Engel

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Wyatt Gaswick

Matt von Konrat

Matthew Von Konrat

Chrissy Christian

Felix Grewe

Matthew Nelsen

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Thorsten Lumbsch

Solving mysteries with moss

Erythroxylum

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

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Costa Rican Fungi

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Tropical Lichen Types (TROPILIT)

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Bryophytes

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NAMA Voucher Collection

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Microlichens

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Botany Species Pages

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Botany Specimens

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Economic Botany

Berlin Negatives

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Botany Taxonomy

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World's Columbian Exposition of 1893 Collection

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Cast of "Stela A" from Copan, Honduras. It is pictured here on display in the hall of Aboriginal Sculpture in the South Court at the Field Columbian Museum, c.1905. Collected by Edward H. Thompson, this stela cast was originally on exhibit in the Anthropological Building of the World's Columbian Exposition in 1893. © The Field Museum, CSA17054, Photographer Charles Carpenter.

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