Dry biome

The science, labor, and plants behind The Pill

Grace Oh '22

Economic botany, abortifacients, and ethnobotany

Kai Barreras '22

Liquor, labor, landscape: the butterfly agave

Grace Fang '23

Eva McNally '25

A scientific marvel, a cultural treasure, and a tourist favorite. How can we weave all of the cardón's roles together?

Lizette Ortega '22

An economic treasure, a cultural icon, and a symbol of resistance

Cricket Liebermann '23

A superfood and flower

Wenyin Cao '23

Candy makers & cactus hunters: the story of the Golden Barrel Cactus

Rena Ramaraju '25

Chemistry, bioprospecting and miracle drugs: A tale of two Ephedra species

Natalie O'Hern '22

Stories of indigenous erasure through colonial nomenclature and ornamentalism

Chelsea Chen '22

The plant that shook the Western world with its looks and has since suffered colonial extraction

Zo Shaw '23