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Visitors to the Calusa Heritage Trail at the Randell Research Center often ask how Calusa people used plants, and every year there is more interest in landscaping with plants native to South Florida. The native-plant garden that Martha (Marty) Kendall first planted along the path leading fr
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Ethnobotany is the scientific study of the interaction between living people, plants, and culture, focusing on how plants are used, managed, and perceived. Components include food, medicine, shelter, fishing, hunting, textiles, clothing, religion, mythology, and magic. This and future artic
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The Pineland Site Complex Project Directors: Karen Walker and William Marquardt Situated on Pine Island’s northwestern shoreline within the Charlotte Harbor-Pine Island Sound region of subtropical, coastal southwest Florida is the Pineland Site Complex, the archaeological remains of one
Onsite facilities include a Visitor’s Center with classroom, gift shop, and restrooms

Surprisingly, McGuire Center Collections Manager George Austin came across the species while curating butterflies in the Florida Museum, which houses one of the world’s largest collections at more than 6 million specimens. An online auction for naming rights to a new owl butterfly species discove
“We are extremely appreciative of this gift which will allow us to continue research

The Thompson Earth Systems Institute is proud to announce that Distinguished Professors Doug and Pam Soltis have been selected as the recipients of the 2025 TESI Broader Impacts Award, recognizing their outstanding contributions to public engagement and science communication. For decades, the Sol
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This summer, a group of Oak Hammock residents took on a six-week challenge: to turn environmental ideas into actionable projects through the Community Action Projects for the Environment (CAPE) curriculum. Led by The CLEO Institute in partnership with the Florida Museum’s Thompson Earth Systems Inst
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The University of Florida Herbarium (FLAS) have combined holdings of approximately a half-million specimens. The collections and estimated holdings include: vascular plants (320,000), bryophytes (70,000), lichens (16,000), fungi (55,000), and wood (16,000). It is the largest scientific plant specim
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The identification of the Pineland site as the likely remains of the important 16th-18th-century Calusa community of Tampa (see June, 2002 Friends newsletter, Vol. 1, No. 2, p. 3) along the northern Calusa frontier lends new significance to documentary evidence regarding Calusa-Spanish relations bet
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The official discovery and naming of “La Florida� in 1513 by former Puerto Rican governor Juan Ponce de León marked only the beginning of Spanish visitation to Southwest Florida, and indeed the first decade after contact seems to have been a busy one. Although he was named Adelantado of Flo
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This Native American Heritage Month I want to celebrate by reflecting and sharing an author close to my heart. If you read to end (no cheating!), you’ll also learn about an exciting upcoming event! I don’t think it’s a coincidence that the spring I decided to devote time to a garden of my own and
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