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Explore Plant Adaptations in Your Community!

Take a walk through your neighborhood, local park, or anywhere else where plants grow. What adaptations do you observe?

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Activity: Leaf Etching

Create leaf etchings!

Drawing of a beaker, test tube, and plant within a circle

Experiment: Leaf Patches

What happens when leaves don’t have access to sunlight? Let’s do an experiment to find out!

Drawing of a beaker, test tube, and plant within a circle

Experiment: Access to Water

Conduct an experiment to evaluate how access to water affects a plant’s growth and survival.

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Experiment: Access to Light

Conduct an experiment to evaluate how access to light affects plants’ growth and survival.

Drawing of a beaker, test tube, and plant within a circle

Experiment: Access to Soil

Conduct an experiment to evaluate how access to soil affects plants’ growth and survival.

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Experiment: Access to Air

Conduct an experiment to evaluate how access to air affects plants’ growth and survival.

A hill in a garden. At the base of the hill are rocks, spherical green and yellow succulents, and purple flowers. On the hill are succulents with bright orange flowers. At the top of the hill are tall trees.

Desert Garden

Over the past 100 years, gardeners have transformed the Desert Garden into a 10-acre expanse with over 2000 species of succulents and desert plants.

Color illustration of a plant with narrow palmate green leaves. Some of the leaves have holes in the center or rips near at the margin. The plant has a moth resting on a leaf and a moth flying near the stem. The plant has a larva resting on a stem and a cocoon attached to a stem. A large black yellow and red larva rests on a leaf. A cocoon rests on the stem and on a swollen root. A moth flies near the plant. A snake coils around the plant.

Metamorphosis of the Insects of Suriname

Merian discovered and shared new scientific information about insects, changing the way Europeans thought about entomology and ecology

Color illustration of a plant with large green leaves and small flowers. Above the plant is a close up of a brown cylinder.

A Curious Herbal

In creating and publishing her scientific illustrations, Blackwell made important contributions to the medical field.

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