Under a strictly controlled environment in the Botany Greenhouse grows a sweet fern — one amongst many of its like. Every now and then it feels a hand or a tweezer poking its stalk, its weeds cleared ...
David Tank, a botany professor and director of UW’s Rocky Mountain Herbarium, examines a specimen of Wyoming paintbrush. Herbarium specimens are central to his research program. (UW Photo) Thanks to a ...