Missouri Botanical Garden

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service listed Mead’s milkweed as a threatened species in 1988. Researchers at the Missouri Botanical Garden have discovered that saving the species is much simpler than previously thought.

The Whitaker Festival will return to the Missouri Botanical Garden this summer. The music festival went on a two-year hiatus as the coronavirus pandemic shut down performances across the St. Louis region.

The Agave pelona only flowers once and takes decades to get there. One of the plants housed at the Missouri Botanical Gardens bloomed this week.

Felipe Zapata lived in St. Louis for seven years. He earned his Ph.D. at UMSL and studied at the Missouri Botanical Garden.

Nearly half of the world’s plant species are at risk of extinction. New research from the Missouri Botanical Garden aims to better predict which species can be grown outdoors in St. Louis.

An invasive sapsucking insect is endangering one of America’s most beloved Christmas trees. To help conserve it, the Missouri Botanical Garden is collecting data on how best to grow it.

The Missouri Botanical Garden has partnered with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to track and research bats in the region since 2017.

On Tuesday's "St. Louis on the Air," we explored French connections to St. Louis culture and talked about a new exhibit at the Missouri Botanical Garden that addresses how Missouri plants helped save French wine.

Jean Ponzi of the Missouri Botanical Garden explained how fogging for mosquitoes has grave impacts on the ecosystem as a whole — and how we can make ourselves less attractive to these pests without harming the environment.

Andrew Wyatt, senior vice president of horticulture at the Missouri Botanical Garden, discusses what garden researchers know about the Karomia gigas tree species, and the garden’s efforts to prevent its extinction.