Ecology & Evolutionary Biology

The EEB Plant Growth Facilities support the educational and research goals of the Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the University of Connecticut. It serves these needs by:

providing EEB faculty & affiliated researchers with professionally managed growing space to conduct world-class research,
maintaining a diverse living reference collection to facilitate teaching in basic botany, plant morphology, systematics and related disciplines,
growing a wide array of plant materials each semester for delivery to introductory & advanced level biology teaching laboratories,
managing growing areas for graduate and advanced undergraduate student experiments,
maintaining conservatory areas to augment the teaching of systematic and ecological concepts and demonstrating economically important plants to the UConn community as well as area elementary/secondary/post-secondary and alternative school groups. Conservatory areas are the primary location for public tours and offer publicly accessible display space for notable plants in the reference collection,
providing facilities, materials & expertise for summer science camps, various special interest seminars and related public outreach programs,
supporting the educational and research goals of institutions world-wide by contributing to the free exchange of plant material for research and educational purposes.

The EEB Plant Growth Facilities seek to make these valuable resources available to provide the residents of Connecticut and beyond the opportunity to learn more about the world in which we live.

Greenhouse Notices:

MON 5 MAY 2008
New UConn Tree Walk Brochure available
Produced by the UConn Arboretum Committee

TUE 22 APR 2008
BPB Spraying Complete
REI expires 9pm 22APR2008
30-day Spray Record

THU 10 APR 2008
Ferns reorganized to correspond to

Smith, Pryer et al. A Classification for Extant Ferns, Taxon 55 (3), August 2006: 705–731

Note that this has resulted in a reduction of our total family representation as a number of previously recognized families are consolidated under the new scheme. A Phylogenetic Tree page has also been added to the website.

EEB Departmental News:

EEB staff member Matt Opel dispels some common 'Potting Bench Urban Legends' over on is personal Burger's Onion blog - have a look...

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EEB Greenhouse Featured Plant

Eupomatia laurina R. Br.
Primitive magnoliid angiosperm from Australia and New Guinea

What else is in flower this week?

Previously Featured Plant

Another new family in the collection to bloom for first time

Orobanche hederae Duby

A root parasite on Hedera that only appears above ground when flowering. A couple of inflorescences were spotted last week. Stay tuned as it develops.

Older featured plants can be found in our archives