Missouri Botanical Garden

Brown recluse spiders are infamous for their necrotic venom, but how dangerous are they, really?

Three St. Louis-area locations have been added to the National Park Service's National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom for their connections to enslaved people.

Garden staff hope St. Louis-area students will see plants in a new light after imagining an urban garden to give back to their communities.

One of the Missouri Botanical Garden’s corpse flowers named Octavia is expected to bloom this week. Its yet-unnamed clone will likely bloom next week.

As extreme weather events become more common, leaders of organizations that produce events outdoors are looking for ways to protect audiences and workers.

St. Louis' weather is quite contrary. So how can green thumbs get their gardens to grow? Missouri Botanical Garden’s Daria McKelvey is here to help.

The Mosquito Alert app invites citizen scientists to track mosquito populations in order to better understand where mosquito hotbeds are in St. Louis.

Nearly 100 Antilles pinktoe tarantulas are the newest addition at Missouri Botanical Garden’s Butterfly House in Chesterfield.

Jordan Teisher and Matthew Albrecht are leading efforts at the Missouri Botanical Garden to bring back plants that have been extinct in the wild for more than 100 years.

Mengqi Ji’s remains were found in a shallow grave two years after she was reported missing. Her murderer was brought to justice with the help of a team of plant conservation geneticists from the Missouri Botanical Garden.