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Seed Plants
Their research interests cover such topics as the diversity of neotropical plants, taxonomic revisions of the Asteraceae, Solanaceae, and other diverse plant families, forest ecology, especially as it relates to conservation biology, the restoration of paries and oak-savannas in the Chicago area, and the search for new anti-AIDS and anticancer compounds in plants.
Our Collections
Of the 2.7 million specimens housed in the Department of Botany, more than 2.2 million are flowering plants which ranks as the fifth largest collection of flowering plants in the nation. This number includes 37,800 type specimens, cataloged and imaged.
