The Botanical Society of America is a membership society whose mission is to: promote botany, the field of basic science dealing with the study and inquiry into the form, function, development, diversity, reproduction, evolution, and uses of plants and their interactions within the biosphere.
» When flowers turn up the heat (Two Illicium species provide warm flower nurseries as a reward to pollinating midges)—by Luo et al.
» Ferns and fog on the forest floor (Redwood forest ecosystem of northern California depends on fog to stay hydrated during rainless summers)—by Limm and Dawson
» Going out on a (redwood tree) limb (Variation in water stress with increasing height in redwood trees determines leaf anatomy)—by Oldham et al.
» 'Different forms of flowers' continues to fascinate (Darwin's influential study inspires continued research on the breeding system called heterostyly)—by Cohen » What is a grass? (Chloroplast DNA reveals that a grass may not be a grass)—by Morris and Duvall