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Meet Jane Colden, the 18th century botanist snubbed by Linnaeus
A barrier-breaking scientist with no formal training, she has been repeatedly left out of science history
Meet Barbara McClintock, who used corn to decipher 'jumping genes'
Through meticulous crossbreeding, she showed that DNA is far more complicated than scientists originally thought
Meet Ynes Mexia, late-blooming botanist whose adventures rivaled Darwin's
Eighty years after her death, scientists are still processing the plants she collected
What the Ice Age tells us about how plants will manage in a hotter world
New research seems to resolve a puzzle of why plants struggled in the past
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A version of this article originally appeared on NPR Scicommers
Is light pollution changing how plants do – and don't – grow?
Plants depend on cycles of light. Now, they're always on
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When you smell the roses, do they smell you back?
Scientists have found that plants like Canada goldenrod deploy defenses against insects on scent
Most of your favorite flowers are mutants
You'll never look at a rose the same way again.