Lipstick vines get their name from their bright red, tube-shaped flowers. But one member of this group of plants has lost its ...

How do plants evolve into new species to accommodate other species? This is what a recent study published in New Phytologist ...

On the rocky hills outside of Jaipur, India, a researcher stumbled upon a new flower species. Chauhan spotted the flowering plant in the Aravali hills near the historic Galtaji temple. Intrigued by ...

The abundance of pink flowers (Rhodohypoxis baurii var. confecta) at the end of the African summer depends on the correlation between rainfall and sunlight, a study in Plant Ecology has found. The ...

Planting flower strips in a field with at least two species can increase the number of natural enemies of pests by 70 percent. The more flower species, the better the effect, according to a new ...

A new photo of a long-forgotten flower showed up online. Identifying it means getting into the tricky question of how a species is defined. A population of lemon beebalm (Monarda citriodora) flowering ...

They may look good in the landscape, but are they, in fact, useful? This is a subject of frequent debate. In recent years, flower strips along fields and ditches have become popular both in Denmark ...

PORTLAND, Ore.— The Center for Biological Diversity petitioned the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today to protect a rare flower called the Willamette phlox under the Endangered Species Act. This ...

Dikes are indispensable for bees, especially if they are home to many different plant and flower species. A large census conducted on 157 dikes along rivers in the Netherlands revealed that more and ...

Scientists want to know how well bees are coping with habitat loss. But first, they need to be able to tell nearly identical species apart. Just a few decades ago, bee enthusiasts across much of North ...