diff --git a/Project.toml b/Project.toml
index 4c2a3cd2..15d8c77f 100644
--- a/Project.toml
+++ b/Project.toml
@@ -37,20 +37,24 @@ Distributions = "0.24, 0.25"
 Graphs = "1"
 IterableTables = "1"
 Missings = "1"
+Plots = "1"
 Printf = "1"
+RCall = "0.13"
 Random = "1"
 RecipesBase = "1"
 Requires = "1"
 SimpleTraits = "0.9"
 Statistics = "1"
+Test = "1"
 Tokenize = "0.5"
 Unitful = "1"
 julia = "1"
 
 [extras]
 DataFrames = "a93c6f00-e57d-5684-b7b6-d8193f3e46c0"
+Plots = "91a5bcdd-55d7-5caf-9e0b-520d859cae80"
 RCall = "6f49c342-dc21-5d91-9882-a32aef131414"
 Test = "8dfed614-e22c-5e08-85e1-65c5234f0b40"
 
 [targets]
-test = ["DataFrames", "RCall", "Test"]
+test = ["DataFrames", "Plots", "RCall", "Test"]
diff --git a/test/test_plot.jl b/test/test_plot.jl
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..d09fc243
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/test_plot.jl
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+module TestPlots
+using Test
+
+using Phylo
+using Plots
+
+@testset "Plots" begin
+    tree = open(parsenewick, Phylo.path("hummingbirds.tree"))
+    @test all(getproperty.([plot(tree), plot(tree, treetype = :fan)], :n) .== 1)
+end
+
+end