Botanical Society of America

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The Botanical Society of America mission is to inspire and promote an inclusive global community committed to advancing fundamental knowledge and innovation in the botanical sciences for the benefit of people and the environment.

A promotional graphic for the Center for Plant Conservation on a soft olive green background with diagonal banner accents. Bold white text in the upper left reads "SAVING RARE PLANTS FROM EXTINCTION." The center features a close-up photograph of a small green plant growing inside a clear glass tissue culture vessel, roots visible in a clear gel medium, with a blurred green background. A dark olive text box in the lower left reads "APPLIED PLANT CONSERVATION COURSE" in bold white text, followed by: "Learn from top conservation experts in this free, on-demand training designed for professionals working with rare and native plants at any stage in their career. From core concepts to advanced methods, you'll gain practical, science-based strategies to power your conservation work, ready to apply in the field, lab, or nursery." Bold green text at the bottom reads "Enroll at SavePlants.org/Courses." The Center for Plant Conservation logo, a circular emblem, appears in the bottom right corner with the organization name beside it.
Photograph of a compression fossil of an endocarp of Punctiuga bachue (Icacinaceae), a new species from the Paleocene of Colombia. Scale bar = 1 cm.
A promotional graphic for The University of Arizona Press on a light gray geometric background. The center features the cover of "The Botanical Odyssey of Richard S. Felger," edited by Benjamin T. Wilder, Bill Broyles, and Thomas Bowen. The cover shows a middle-aged man in a blue shirt, black hat, jeans, and boots standing in a desert landscape with pink sand dunes and sparse desert vegetation, examining a plant in his hands. A dark green text box overlays the upper portion of the cover with the book title in white serif text. Below the book cover, large italic text reads "It was Richard Felger who reminded me that the desert is beautiful." attributed to Petey Mesquitey. A QR code appears at the bottom left alongside the URL "uapress.arizona.edu." The University of Arizona Press logo and name appear in a dark navy banner at the bottom.
Promotional graphic from the Botanical Society of America with a purple-to-gold gradient header reading "College-Level Botany Textbooks and Teaching: Different Approaches." A teal banner below announces "Recording Now Available!" Two photos sit side by side: on the left, Ken Cameron, smiling in a plaid shirt with sunglasses on his head and a mountain landscape behind him; on the right, Rachel Jabaily, smiling in a blue top with a beaded necklace, standing near rocks and greenery. Text at the bottom reads "A Discussion Session led by the BSA Education Committee," next to a QR code labeled "To Access Recording." The footer reads www.botany.org/calendar.
A promotional graphic for BRIT Press on a dark green background. Bold white text at the top reads "Publishing shouldn't be" followed by the word "hard." in italic green text. The center features a photograph of a smiling woman with dark hair seated in a bright indoor space, holding open a large illustrated botanical book. Bookshelves and display cases are visible in the background, along with a large decorative green leaf sculpture. At the bottom left, green text reads "LET'S TALK" with an arrow, followed by "Find us at Botany 2026" and a green pill-shaped button reading "BOOTH 218." The BRIT Press logo, a stylized orange and green leaf, appears at the bottom right alongside the text "BRIT Press, Fort Worth Botanic Garden."
A promotional graphic for the USA National Phenology Network on a dark green background. The USA-NPN logo appears in the upper left, featuring the letters "NPN" with a circular icon of a bird and leaf in orange, green, and blue. The Nature's Notebook logo, a white bird perched on an open book with a leaf, appears in the upper right. A blue banner across the middle reads "Tracking seasonal changes in plants and animals through the Nature's Notebook platform." To the left, a smartphone displays the Nature's Notebook app interface showing a data entry screen for red maple (Acer rubrum), with fields for observing breaking leaf buds. To the right, four feature points read: "Explore long-term phenological data for over 1900 species across the country," "Engage students in data collection and visualization," "Contribute to novel phenological research," and "Join a community of researchers, educators, and phenology enthusiasts." An orange banner at the bottom reads "NEW Nature's Notebook app coming soon! Designed for all observers, beginner to advanced." A QR code appears in the bottom right corner.
Experimental design and treatment structure of the shade‐house experiment with Litsea floribunda and Symplocos racemosa. Pot colorindicates soil treatment, and seedling color denotes species identity.
The text at the top reads: “AJB and APPS Special Issues Call for Papers”. The text at the bottom reads: “The Role of Temperature in Plant Ecology and Evolution”. The photo shows a forest canopy. The Botanical Society of America, Applications in Plant Sciences, and American Journal of Botany logos are at the bottom of the graphic.
Schematic overview of the six core analytical workflows in PbAT. (A) Design Your Trial: Generates randomized field layouts (visualized) and field books for complex designs. (B) Trait Explorer: Facilitates data quality control through outlier detection boxplots and spatial distribution heatmaps. (C) Experimental Design Analysis: Executes descriptive and mixed-model analyses (e.g., alpha lattice, RCBD) to derive BLUEs/BLUPs. (D) Stability Analysis: Utilizes the output from the experimental design module (indicated by the Analysis-2 arrow) to generate GGE and AMMI biplots. (E) Multivariate Analysis: Performs path analysis, PCA, and correlation studies using adjusted means. (F) Mating Design Analysis: Estimates combining ability effects and ANOVA for diallel and line × tester populations. Credit: Abhijith et al.
A promotional graphic for the University of Chicago Press on a textured steel blue background. Bold white text at the top reads "Explore science journals from the University of Chicago Press." Below, five overlapping journal covers are displayed: The American Naturalist (cream cover with green serif text and an underwater fish photograph), The Biological Bulletin (dark cover featuring a close-up photograph of sea anemones), Freshwater Science (white cover featuring a close-up photograph of a yellow fish), The Quarterly Review of Biology (white cover with red and black text), and International Journal of Plant Sciences (dark cover featuring a vivid red and white microscopic cross-section image of plant tissue).
"Thank you to our Botany 2026 sponsor" graphic with the Botany 2026 conference logo (a circular badge reading "Biodiversity at the Boundaries, Botany 2026, August 1-5, Tucson, Arizona" with a desert cactus illustration) on a blue-to-purple gradient background. Below, the Arizona Genomics Institute logo appears on a white background with the tagline "Feeding and protecting the earth, one genome at the time," a DNA helix and cactus icon marked "Est. 2002," a QR code, and the URL www.genome.arizona.edu.
"Thank you to our Botany 2026 exhibitor" graphic with the Botany 2026 conference logo (a circular badge reading "Biodiversity at the Boundaries, Botany 2026, August 1-5, Tucson, Arizona" with a desert cactus illustration) on a blue-to-purple gradient background. Below, the American Begonia Society logo appears on a white background — a circular teal and dark blue badge featuring a stylized begonia leaf, with text reading "American Begonia Society, Est. 1932." A QR code and the URL www.begonias.org/about-us/ are shown below.
A promotional graphic for the Cactus and Succulent Society of America on a warm tan to gold gradient background. Bold dark green text at the top reads "Cactus and Succulent Society of America" followed by the URL "cactusandsucculentsociety.org/programs/conservation." The graphic lists Conservation and Research Grants Funding for: Field-based Conservation Projects, Habitat Protection Initiatives, Taxonomic and Systematic Research, Ecological and Population Studies, and Seed Banking and Ex Situ Conservation Efforts. Below that, bold text reads "Publish Your Work" followed by "in the Cactus and Succulent Journal or Haseltonia (Peer-Reviewed)." Next, bold text reads "Early-Career Support" followed by "Dedicated funding for Students and Early-career Researchers." At the bottom, bold text reads "Advancing Science. Protecting Habitat. Since 1929." The CSSA logo, a stylized illustration of a cactus and agave plant, appears in the bottom right corner.
A promotional graphic for Missouri Botanical Garden Press on a steel blue background. The Missouri Botanical Garden Press logo and name appear in white at the top. Two journal covers are displayed side by side inside a white bracket frame. On the left, the cover of Novon: A Journal for Botanical Nomenclature, Volume 33, 2025, features a yellow header and a grid of four close-up botanical photographs showing various flowering plant species. On the right, the cover of Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden, Volume 110, 2025, features a close-up photograph of an orange and yellow tulip-like flower in bloom against a soft green background. The URL "journals.mobot.org" appears in white text at the bottom inside the bracket frame.
A promotional graphic for Annals of Botany on a white background. The Annals of Botany logo appears at the top in large serif lettering with the tagline "Nonprofit since 1887." A black banner below reads "A Home for All Plant Science" in bold white text. The center features a close-up photograph of a metallic green sweat bee (family Halictidae) foraging on a bright yellow buttercup (Ranunculus) flower, with blurred green grass in the background. A dark rounded text box below reads "Learn More at Booth 424" in bold white text, followed by a white panel listing eight research areas Annals of Botany welcomes, including flowering and nonflowering plants, algal and fungal taxa, terrestrial and aquatic environments, cell ultrastructure to biomes, tissue culture to crop production, phylogenetics and functional ecology, paleobotany to future environments, and microclimate to global systems. At the bottom, four QR codes appear alongside icons for Bluesky, Instagram, Mastodon, and the Annals of Botany Newsletter.
Landscape image of a cascading river and small waterfalls flowing through a rocky, brown hillside with distant snow-dusted terrain under a cloudy sky. A beige overlay panel on the left reads “Subscribe to Open” and “Throughout 2026, read all journal articles and publish open access in our subscription journals at no cost. Find out more.” The Royal Society Publishing logo appears at the bottom left, with a QR code at the bottom right.
A promotional graphic for NatureServe featuring a close-up photograph of a purple coneflower (Echinacea) in bloom against a bright blue sky with green foliage in the background. The NatureServe logo appears in the upper left corner. Bold pink text reads "WHO WE ARE." A dark semi-transparent text box at the bottom states: "For 50 years, NatureServe has been the authoritative source for biodiversity data throughout North America. We work with 60+ network organizations to collect, analyze, and deliver biodiversity knowledge that informs conservation action."
"Thank you to our Botany 2026 exhibitor" graphic with the Botany 2026 conference logo (a circular badge reading "Biodiversity at the Boundaries, Botany 2026, August 1-5, Tucson, Arizona" with a desert cactus illustration) on a blue-to-purple gradient background. Below, the American Begonia Society logo appears on a white background — a circular teal and dark blue badge featuring a stylized begonia leaf, with text reading "American Begonia Society, Est. 1932." A QR code and the URL www.begonias.org/about-us/ are shown below.
Picturae promotional graphic for Botany 2026, reading "Picturae, Herbarium Digitization, 30 Million Digitized and Growing." A group of people examine a plant specimen being scanned on a large digitization table in a lab setting, with herbarium storage boxes visible on shelves in the background. The colorful hexagonal Picturae logo appears in the lower left, with "Botany 2026" in the lower right.
The graphic reads "Call for Reviewing Editors, Deadline August 15, 2026". Logos for the Botanical Society of America and Applications in Plant Sciences are at the bottom.
Ad for Bay Instruments, the U.S. and Canada representative of WALZ photosynthesis instruments. Features the WALZ logo with text, "Bay Instruments is the US and Canada representative of Heinz Walz, GmbH." Images show several WALZ research instruments, including the JUNIOR-PAM chlorophyll fluorometer measuring a leaf with a fiber-optic probe, a PHYTO-PAM-II Compact Version fluorometer, and a DUAL-PAM/F chlorophyll fluorescence and P700 photosynthesis analyzer. Contact information is displayed at the bottom: bayinstruments.com, inquiries@bayinstruments.com, and 1-443-746-2176.
Promotional graphic for Botany 2026 conference swag. Bold orange text reads "Order your Botany 2026 swag now!" The Botany 2026 logo in the top left shows a desert landscape with cacti and the text "Biodiversity at the Boundaries, Botany 2026, August 1 to 5, Tucson, Arizona." Eight products are displayed, each printed with the round Botany 2026 logo: a white water bottle, a tan tote bag, a navy baseball cap, a sage green t-shirt, an orange tie-dye t-shirt, a denim blue t-shirt, a green crewneck sweatshirt, and a black hoodie. The website www.botanyconference.org appears below the products. Logos of the participating societies run along the bottom: Botanical Society of America, American Society of Plant Taxonomists, Society of Herbarium Curators, American Bryological and Lichenological Society, International Association for Plant Taxonomy, and American Fern Society.
"Thank you to our Botany 2026 exhibitor" graphic with the Botany 2026 conference logo (a circular badge reading "Biodiversity at the Boundaries, Botany 2026, August 1-5, Tucson, Arizona" with a desert cactus illustration) on a blue-to-purple gradient background. Below, the Flora of North America (FNA) logo appears — a black-and-white botanical illustration of a flower — with the text "Flora of North America" in blue below it, followed by a QR code and the URL www.floranorthamerica.org/Main_Page.
Torrey Botanical Society informational graphic. Header reads "Torrey Botanical Society, The Oldest Botanical Society in the Americas" beside a circular green-and-white logo with fern fronds and "1867." Text explains the society was founded in New York City in 1867 and is dedicated to the advancement of botany through research, education, and public engagement. Two historical photos are shown: a black-and-white group photo labeled "Staten Island, 1914," and a color photo of a group posed on rocks in a forest labeled "upstate NY, 2012." Four green boxes list offerings: "Field Trips, held in NY-NJ-CT-PA"; "Student Grants, undergraduate, master's, and PhD"; "Virtual Lectures, watch our past lectures on YouTube"; and "Journal of the Torrey Botanical Society, free to publish, free open access." Footer lists contact info: www.torreybotanical.org, @TorreyBotanical (Facebook, Instagram, Bluesky icons), and @TorreyBotanicalSociety (YouTube icon).
Co-first authors, Jocelyn Navarro and Roxy Cruz-de Hoyos, deep in a Rocky Mountain aspen forest, collecting canopy-level branches using a Notch Big Shot slingshot to measure minimum leaf conductance amongst interdigitated and co-occurring polyploid aspen stands.
The iDigBio logo, featuring four petal-shaped icons arranged like a four-leaf clover — a blue leaf, a green scaled shell, an orange spiral shell, and a yellow striped teardrop — above the green text "iDigBio" and the tagline "Integrated Digitized Biocollections."
"Thank you to our Botany 2026 sponsor" graphic with the Botany 2026 conference logo (a circular badge reading "Biodiversity at the Boundaries, Botany 2026, August 1-5, Tucson, Arizona" with a desert cactus illustration) on a blue-to-purple gradient background. Below, the Arizona Genomics Institute logo appears on a white background with the tagline "Feeding and protecting the earth, one genome at the time," a DNA helix and cactus icon marked "Est. 2002," a QR code, and the URL www.genome.arizona.edu.
The New Phytologist Foundation logo and text superimposed on a photograph of a large pine tree in remote countryside. Text reads: An independent, not-for-profit organisation dedicated to the promotion of plant-focused research. We own and produce the journals New Phytologist and Plants, People, Planet. We support the plant-focused research community by reinvesting excess revenue from the publication of our journals in a range of initiatives, including: Symposia, Workshops, and events tailored to early career researchers; Awards for early career researchers, including the New Phytologist Tansley Medal. Sign up for our monthly newsletter and explore our activities at newphytologist.org.
Parapatric distributions and photos of Abronia villosa var. aurita and Abronia villosa var. villosa across the Transverse Mountain Ranges of Southern California. Also, a phylogeny showing evidence that Abronia villosa var. aurita was derived through budding speciation (monophyletic derivative species nested within a paraphyletic progenitor species).
A promotional graphic for the University of Chicago Press on a textured green background, displaying five overlapping science journal covers on the left side: The American Naturalist (cream cover with green text), The Biological Bulletin (featuring a photo of insects on rocky terrain), Freshwater Science (featuring mussel shells), International Journal of Plant Sciences (featuring black-and-white microscopic plant specimen images), and The Quarterly Review of Biology (white cover with pink and black text). Large bold white text on the right reads "Explore science journals from the University of Chicago Press."
Inflorescence morphology and coloration of three individuals from different populations of Guzmania monostachia.
A photograph of LI-COR scientific equipment set up in a lush green prairie field at sunset, surrounded by tall grasses and purple wildflowers. A teal and white instrument with a solar panel and multiple cable connections sits in the foreground, with a white instrument mounted on a tripod-like stand visible to the right. A gray hard-sided equipment case rests on the ground in the grass nearby. Soft pink and purple hues color the sky at the horizon. The LI-COR logo appears in the bottom right corner on a light triangular banner.
The text at the top reads: "AJB and APPS special issue Call for Papers." The text at the bottom reads: "Advancing restoration of natural and agricultural systems: New tools and discoveries that integrate plant traits, plant communities, and the soil ecosphere." The logos at the bottom are: the American Journal of Botany, the Botanical Society of America, and Applications in Plant Sciences. Photo: A multispecies prairie plot (foreground) and an Echinacea monoculture (background) within the Dimensions of Biodiversity experiment at the University of Kansas Field Station, where researchers study how plant diversity and precipitation interact to influence productivity (credit: Benjamin Sikes). Inset photo: Exposed plant root system displayed within a three-dimensional frame illustrates the extensive belowground biomass (credit: Allison Miller).
Image is for Blue Beehive Studio and shows photos of a liverwort tea towel, saguaro wooden earrings, and Darwin tree stickers. Shop logo, "curious art for curious people" is at the bottom.
Brochure advertising Symbiota portals used to share botanical specimen data including URLs to several example portals, such as SEINet (swbiodiversity.org), the Consortium of Lichen Herbaria (lichenportal.org), and CCH2.org.
A promotional graphic for the Center for Plant Conservation featuring a close-up photograph of an orange Mariposa lily in bloom, with diagonal olive green banners across the top left and bottom right corners. Bold white text in the top banner reads "SAVING RARE PLANTS FROM EXTINCTION." In the bottom banner, bold text reads "PROTECT. EDUCATE. CONNECT." followed by smaller text: "The Center for Plant Conservation is a trusted leader in rare plant conservation, connecting experts, sharing knowledge, and providing the resources needed to protect North America's most imperiled plants." Below that, text reads "Learn more at SavePlants.org." The Center for Plant Conservation logo, a circular emblem, appears in the bottom right corner with the organization name beside it.
Promotional flyer for the Dryland Floras Botany 2026 Affinity Group Mixer. The flyer features an illustrated desert scene with a tall saguaro cactus, prickly pear, and various desert succulents and plants in shades of green, teal, and orange against a warm beige background. Text reads: "Dryland Floras, Botany 2026 Affinity Group Mixer. This mixer aims to continue the conversations and connections initiated during Botany 2025's Dryland Floras colloquium and satellite meeting. In addition to the participants from last year's sessions, we welcome anyone interested in drylands and deserts and their plants to join us over coffee to discuss ideas, foster collaborations and explore future directions for the network. Tuesday, August 4, 9:45 to 10:15 AM. Grab a coffee and meet us in the Sundeck Hospitality Suite 6339." The Botany 2026 conference logo appears in the lower right corner.
Photo of a Bombus impatiens (common eastern bumble bee) visiting a Solanum carolinense (Carolina horsenettle).
Image shows the NJB journal cover and QR code to website https://nso-journals.org/nordic-journal-of-botany
Book cover featuring a middle-aged white man in blue shirt, hat, jeans, and boots standing in a desert landscape; the man examines a plant in his hands. The text "The Botanical Odyssey of Richard S. Felger" in bold white letters at the top of the cover.
Promotional flyer for The Botanical Sisterhood: Supporting Women in Botany Affinity Group Gathering at Botany 2026. The flyer features a colorful illustration of a diverse group of women rendered as silhouettes in shades of blue, orange, pink, and brown, arranged within the outline of a woman's profile. Text reads: "The Botanical Sisterhood: Supporting Women in Botany, Botany 2026 Affinity Group Gathering. A community event centered on women in botany and open to all who want to support a culture of mentorship, professional development, leadership, and belonging within the botanical sciences. All career stages welcome! Tuesday, August 4, 9:30 to 10:30 AM. Grab a coffee and meet us in Boardroom 2." The Botany 2026 conference logo appears in the lower right corner.
A promotional graphic for NatureServe Explorer and NatureServe Explorer Pro set against a dark background with a faint leaf texture. Both product logos appear at the top. Bold white text reads "DATA YOU CAN DEPEND ON." Below is a screenshot of the NatureServe Explorer interface displaying a species page for the Ghost Orchid, featuring a map of Florida showing distribution and conservation status data. Three bullet points below the laptop read: "Covers 100,000 species and ecosystems across North America," "Free access, with licensed data available through Explorer Pro," and "Connected to expert-vetted, locally informed resources."
In the top right a woman is smiling at an art booth. In the middle is a watercolor illustration of a plant (Astragalus nuttallii) with large pink bean pods and white flowers. Two bumble bees (Bombus vosnesenskii) are flying towards the plant and one bee is pollinating the flowers. Text above reads: “Need an illustration? Let’s talk. Elise Cypher Science Illustrator.” Text below reads: “Come find me at Botany 2026. Booth 316. elisecypher@gmail.com. elisecypher.weebly.com @elisecypherart” There is a QR code to the website elisecypher.weebly.com in the bottom right corner.
Two-panel image: embryo elongation in stratified Petroselinum crispum seeds (example from ten Apiaceae species), plus a phylogenetic tree showing evolutionary constraints on embryo growth thermal niches.
Flyer advertising the USA National Phenology Network’s Nature’s Notebook data collection platform.
Ad for Bay Instruments, the U.S. and Canada representative of WALZ photosynthesis instruments. Features the WALZ logo with text, "Bay Instruments is the US and Canada representative of Heinz Walz, GmbH." Images show several WALZ research instruments, including the JUNIOR-PAM chlorophyll fluorometer measuring a leaf with a fiber-optic probe, a PHYTO-PAM-II Compact Version fluorometer, and a DUAL-PAM/F chlorophyll fluorescence and P700 photosynthesis analyzer. Contact information is displayed at the bottom: bayinstruments.com, inquiries@bayinstruments.com, and 1-443-746-2176.
Promotional flyer for the International and Immigrant Botanist Mixer Affinity Group Gathering at Botany 2026. The flyer features a colorful world map with continents in shades of green, teal, and orange on a white background. Text reads: "International and Immigrant Botanist Mixer, Botany 2026 Affinity Group Gathering. A mixer with international and immigrant botanists. Monday, August 3, 3:00 to 4:00 PM. Grab a coffee and meet us in the Sundeck Hospitality Suite 6339." The Botany 2026 conference logo appears in the lower right corner.
books with Missouri Botanical Garden Press logo
In the top right is a watercolor painting of a bat and a large white flower, the bat pollinating the flower. Below the painting there is text that reads “My work can be found at Calitutkowski.com and @Calitutkowski on instagram. Or you can scan here” beside the text is an arrow that points to a QR code. In the top left is a photo of a smiling woman with greenery behind her. Below her is a digital illustration of the carnivorous plant Darlingtonia californica. Below that there is text that reads “ I’d love to hear about your project! Find me at booth 112”
Close-up photograph of purple flower buds surrounded by green foliage, with a soft blurred background. Overlaid text reads “Philosophical Transactions B” and “Submit a proposal to edit an influential themed issue in your field. Find out more.” The Royal Society Publishing logo appears at the bottom alongside a QR code.
Three BRIT Press botanical books fanned out against a dark green background: Illustrated Flora of East Texas, Nevada Vascular Plants: An Annotated Checklist of the State's Botanical Diversity, and Flora of Colorado, Second Edition by Jennifer Ackerfield. Text reads: "Take something home besides notes. Explore BRIT Press Titles — Booth 218."
A BSA Spotlight Series graphic featuring Caleb Onoja Akogwu, a graduate student at Utah State University. The top section shows the BSA Spotlight Series logo, a green circle with a illustrated globe and botanical leaf motif, alongside the text "Our newest Spotlight is on Caleb Onoja Akogwu, a Graduate Student at Utah State University." The bottom section shows a photo of Caleb, a young Black man smiling and leaning on a garden tool while standing in a wetland or field setting, wearing a black jacket, orange safety vest, work gloves, and a green beanie. To the right of the photo, on a dark green background, white text reads: "Caleb studies ferns, one of Earth's oldest vascular plant lineages, using phylogenomics, bioinformatics, and fieldwork to investigate how hybridization, polyploidy, and diversification have shaped fern evolution and contributed to the remarkable biodiversity we see today." The graphic concludes with "To learn more, visit www.botany.org."
Promotional flyer for the LGBTQ+ and Friends Mixer Affinity Group Gathering at Botany 2026. The flyer features a bold Progress Pride flag design with chevron stripes in white, pink, light blue, brown, and black on the left, merging into the traditional rainbow flag stripes of red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and purple. A purple circle on a yellow background represents the intersex community. Text at the bottom reads: "Tuesday, August 4, 5:00 to 6:30 PM, Sundeck Hospitality Suite 6339. Tickets are $15 and include light refreshments." The Botany 2026 conference logo appears in the lower left corner.
An Annals of Botany cover shows a hummingbird sipping nectar from a flower with its elongated tongue. The cover advertises the Annals of Botany Special Lecture by Casper van der Kooi on Evolutionary Biology of Floral Visual Signals. QR codes for BlueSky, Instagram, Mastodon, and the Annals of Botany Quarterly Newsletter are included at the bottom of the design.
A three-panel horizontal flowchart describing the data flow for PhenoVision–Leaf. Panel one represents community-collected images and phenology annotations on iNaturalist, panel two shows these being fed into the PhenoVision–Leaf modal, and panel 3 shows a global map of new leaf phenology data and mentions that these data will be integrated into Phenobase. Credit: @er1ngrady.bsky.social
Epitype specimen of Sequoia primaria comb. nov., preserving an immature seed cone, densely branched shoots covered with small scale-like leaves, and a few small, narrow, flattened leaves.
Image of a whole plant view of bamboo culms. The research scaled from cells to tissues to organs to whole plants.