A unique cache of plant fossils from volcanic deposits in New Mexico contradicts the common narrative that flowering plants ...

Drought-tolerant plants make garden maintenance easier in rising temperatures – here are eight top choices to grow ...

A successful vegetable garden should not only contain vegetables. It should be a diverse planting scheme, or polyculture, that also includes herbs and a range of flowers. In an organic garden, ...

Asteraceae, a family of flowering plants which includes daisies, sunflowers and asters, are the most diverse group of flowering plants in the world. This plant family comprises around 34,000 species, ...

Plants range from simple seaweeds and single-celled pond scum, through to mosses, ferns and huge trees. Paleontologists like us have long debated exactly how this diverse range of shapes and sizes ...

Researchers may have discovered the first example of a frog that pollinates flowering plants. By Sofia Quaglia On warm evenings near Rio de Janeiro, you might find milk fruit trees covered in brownish ...

Researchers at the University of Bristol have identified the huge impact of flowering plants on the evolution of life on Earth. Flowering plants today include most of the plants humans eat or drink, ...

Plants exposed to adverse environmental conditions often accelerate the transition from vegetative growth to flowering, a phenomenon broadly termed stress-induced flowering. Diverse abiotic ...

Shopping to add pops of color to your yard and garden this summer?  Native pollinators benefit when you pick native plants that are more likely to come from local greenhouses or your neighbor’s ...