A small, slender shrub once written off as lost to history has reappeared in the red dirt of remote northern Australia, ...

Plant species that was presumed to be extinct reappears after nearly six decades - Small Australian shrub with delicate pink ...

The strategy, known as synthetic biology, is gaining momentum globally as a conservation tool and human health solution, ...

Citizen science platforms, including iNaturalist, are leading to major new discoveries and are becoming crucial to the work ...

Bishop Museum is offering an updated Botany Checklist of native and non-native plants of the islands — alive and extinct — as ...

Ptilotus senarius is a small shrub with pleasing purple-pink flowers near the Gulf of Carpentaria, and hadn’t been collected since 1967.

Global warming is producing a rapid loss of plant species -- according to estimates, roughly 600 plant species have died out since 1750 -- twice the number of animal species lost. But which species ...

The mass extinction that killed 80% of life on Earth 250 million years ago may not have been quite so disastrous for plants, new fossils hint. Scientists have identified a refuge in China where it ...

Modern scrub mints, delicate flowering plants that grow mostly in Florida, likely result from ancient hybridization, according to a recent study I published with colleagues. Scrub mints are a clade – ...

The world's botanic gardens must pull together to protect global plant biodiversity in the face of the extinction crisis, amid restrictions on wild-collecting, say researchers. A major study of ...