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image collage featuring botanical and insect illustration, golden barrel cacti and a portrait of a woman wearing brown.image collage featuring botanical and insect illustration, golden barrel cacti and a portrait of a woman wearing brown.

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Explore our collections with digital resources for learners of all ages.

Plant Adaptations Videos

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Cartoon image of an anthropomorphized tree and acorn both wearing gloves and flowing red capes, like superheroes

How Do Oak Trees Adapt? | Plant Adaptations

cartoon illustration of a watering can watering a plant

How Do Plants Find Water? | Plant Adaptations

collage illustration of a carnivorous plant venus flytrap

Carnivorous Plants and Their Traps | Plant Adaptations

cartoon illustration of an anthropomorphized acorn wearing a thong, wide-brimmed hat and sunglasses.

How Do Plants Get Light? | Plant Adaptations

cartoon illustration of an anthropomorphized carrot wearing boxing gloves, boots and a sweatband as it punches the air.

How Do Plants Protect Themselves? | Plant Adaptations

Plant Parts and More

green oak leaf

Leaves

The trunk of a tree grows in three branches. The base of the trunk is swollen.

Stems

Tree trunk with large sprawling above-ground roots.

Roots

Poster illustrating the process of photosynthesis using a drawing of a sunflower

Food from Sunlight

Plants and fish underwater

Life in the Water

A painting of a river with large trees and a bridge, people work near boats in the foreground.

Art: John Constable's Landscapes

Learn why despite living through the rapid change that was so prominent during the Industrial Revolution, the artist focused on capturing pastoral landscapes and nature’s beauty.

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John Constable (British, 1776–1837), View on the Stour near Dedham, 1822, oil on canvas, 51 x 74 in. | The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens. 

California Art

Black and white woodcut artwork depicting a rising path with a staircase that leads straight up to the top of a hill. Above the staircase, massive trees that seem to be lit from behind tower over the hilltop.

Spotlight: 2506 El Moran by Paul Landacre

A light-skinned Black man wearing a painter's smock and a fedora stands and looks down at a sculpture of a head he is holding. The sculpture depicts a young Black person. Behind him, we see shelves with several sculptural pieces on them.

Artist Spotlight: Sargent Claude Johnson

Sargent Claude Johnson sculpture of the head of a boy.

Spotlight: Head of a Boy by Sargent Claude Johnson

A detail image of a wood carving.

Spotlight: Organ Screen by Sargent Claude Johnson

Color photograph of an older Black woman with white and grey hair pulled up to the top of her head in a short, curly ponytail. She is wearing a loose grey shirt and is standing in her artist studio, surrounded by wooden clocks, shelves, candlestick holders, and other miscellaneous items.

The Betye Saar Art Box | La Caja de Arte de Betye Saar

Discover Our Collections

Want to learn something new? Delve into an assortment of objects from our various collections.

Printed illustration of a flea.

Micrographia

Printed illustration of six dogs howling. The dogs are on the snow and an arc of light is at the top of the image. The text below the image reads: "With the aurora borealis flaming coldly overhead."

The Call of the Wild

Large wooden spinning wheel with spokes attached to one end of a simple bench-like structure with a pulley device attached to the other end.

Object Story: Spinning Wheel

Nature as Artistic Inspiration

Nature and the Elements of Art