Herbarium staff and students participate in diverse projects spanning traditional morphological plant systematics, floristics, plant anatomy, molecular analysis and pollination ecology.
Our major focus areas include the plant families Orchidaceae, Ericaceae and Melastomataceae, Angiosperm family phylogeny, Florida floristic inventories and cultivated plant systematics.
Current Molecular, Morphological and Ecological Plant Systematic Studies
- Plant Exploration and Systematics (Majure lab)
- Laboratory of Molecular Systematics and Evolution (Soltis lab) (affiliated program)
Publications by Staff, Student and Affiliated Researchers
(in herbarium library database)
Florida Museum Botanical Research Recent Press Releases
Spooky natural history
This Halloween season, we’re celebrating a part of Florida’s natural history that’s often underappreciated: fungi, parasites and wasps....
First local extinction in the U.S. due to sea level rise
The United States has lost its only stand of the massive Key Largo tree cactus in what researchers believe is…
Botanists and archaeologists receive National Science Foundation grant to study Mediterranean history
It’s an unusual collaboration. Botanists and archaeologists don’t often work together, unless they’re studying the way people have used...