Plant and fungus systematics and taxonomy constitute foundational disciplines that underpin our understanding of biodiversity. Historically grounded in morphological and anatomical studies, these ...

Botanical taxonomy, the science of naming and classifying plant species, remains indispensable for understanding biodiversity and informing conservation strategies. Recent advances have refined both ...

Classification is a natural human propensity—we organize our clothes, our kitchen cupboards, and our toys. This applies to the natural world, too, where animals and plants are grouped based on ...

The Herbarium supports many courses, ranging from lower-level undergraduate classes through graduate-level courses, including Field Botany (BIO 155), Ecology of North America (BIO 176), Plant Biology ...

TAXON is the leading international journal devoted to systematics, phylogeny and taxonomy of algae, fungi, and plants. It also publishes papers on methodology, botanical history, biography, ...

LA CROSSE, Wis. (WEAU) - Adam Schneider is an assistant professor of biology at UW-La Crosse. He’s teaching a plant taxonomy course to help students identify plants they may see in their daily lives.

Calicut University plans to establish an Interdisciplinary Centre for Plant Taxonomy to enhance biodiversity research and conservation efforts.

For nearly two decades, Sacramento State’s campus herbarium lay dormant, its plant specimens hidden and nearly forgotten inside a shuttered lab in Sequoia Hall. Then, in January 2024, plant ecologist ...

Over the spring semester, students in Adam Schneider’s plant taxonomy course tackled a real-world challenge for the city of La Crosse — and the results of the experiment are in. “I found it really ...

Latin might seem like an obscure, inscrutable language for naming plants. But it can open up the botanical world in ways you can’t imagine. By Margaret Roach The plants are trying to tell us something ...