The Missouri Botanical Garden has launched an initiative to create a digital repository of the 6 million plant specimens stored in the herbarium there.

Metadata for (and image of) a botanical specimen collected by scientist Suzanne Ripley in 1970, now held at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History.

ST. LOUIS, Mo. (First Alert 4) - When most folks think of the Missouri Botanical Garden they probably think of pretty flowers and seasonal events -- they may not think about the 8 million-plus ...

Matthew Austin, curator of biodiversity data at the Missouri Botanical Garden, looks through Dogwood tree samples in the herbarium.. Austin’s research shows Dogwood trees are blooming earlier in the ...

The team discovered that the majority of Heliconia specimens growing in botanical gardens represent species of least conservation concern on the IUCN Red List.