Plants & Fungi

The Native plant nursery at Oxbow Farm is growing Northwest Native plants in anticipation of the new Burke facility.

Developing “barcodes” with fungi DNA helps easily identify species.

Researchers sink their teeth into this tricky evolutionary question.

By extracting phytoliths from once-living plants, scientists were able to uncover a story of vegetation change in response to climate.

Plants were an integral part of the Coast Salish diets prior to Euro-American colonization but also played central roles in social systems.

30 million years ago, the world lacked its grass-dominated environments, but 70 million years ago, grasses had not evolved—or so we think.

The Burke Museum Herbarium's new Washington Wildflowers wildflower identification app.

Washington state is home to a wide variety of fossils. Best of all, there age has several fossil sites that are open to the public.

From Amazonian jungles to Mexico's deserts, the diversity of these ecosystems is unrivaled. It is home to earth’s greatest biodiversity.