BRONX BOTANY For their exhibit “Bronx Lot Florilegium,” artists Bob Braine and Leslie Reed identified 57 plant species from a 15-square-foot plot in an overgrown, vacant lot in the Castle Hill neighborhood. For seven months, they visited the site regularly to draw the plant life they found there. Inspired by 18th- and 19th- century naturalists, they created a collection of botanical illustrations accompanied by text about the plants’ uses, places of origin, and associations that people have with each plant. The exhibit also includes a variety of specimens from the lot. Through Sunday, August 28, Tuesday–Sunday, 9 a.m.–5:30 p.m., Wave Hill, 675 W. 252nd St. at Independence Avenue, Bronx, 718-549-3200, $4 general, $2 seniors and students, free for members and children under 6, free for all on Saturdays from 9 a.m. to noon and all day Tuesdays.

SUMMER SCENES The summer group show at Daniel Cooney Fine Art features new work by Anja Jensen, Tim Lehmacher, Carrie Levy, Alexander Morel, Eri Morita, Sarah Pickering, Paul Mpagi Sepuya, and Andrea Shaker. Through Friday, tomorrow–Friday, 11 a.m.–6 p.m., Daniel Cooney Fine Art, 511 W. 25th St., between Tenth and Eleventh avenues, suite 506, 212-255-8158, free.

FACES OF CHINA Liu Zheng’s black-and-white photographs of groups from Chinese society he considers “archetypal Chinese figures” — including coal miners, opera performers, and transsexuals — are on display in “The Chinese.” Mr. Zheng worked as a photographer for the Chinese newspaper Gongren Ribao during the 1990s. Through Friday, August 26, Monday–Friday,10 a.m.–6 p.m., Yossi Milo Gallery, 525 W. 25th St., between Tenth and Eleventh avenues, 212-414-0370, free.

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