As Valentines Day approaches, who needs roses when there are so many other plants of the heart to choose from?
Lipstick vines get their name from their bright red, tube-shaped flowers. But one member of this group of plants has lost its lipstick-like appearance— its flowers are shorter, wider, and yellowish ...
Scientists found a tropical vine that changed its flowers without losing its pollinators, revealing a more flexible path to plant evolution.
For flowering plants, reproduction is a question of the birds and the bees. Attracting the right pollinator can be a matter ...
Lipstick vines get their name from their bright red, tube-shaped flowers. But one member of this group of plants has lost its ...
GOLDEN VALLEY, Minn — When it comes to attracting pollinators to your garden, we always say to make sure you have something blooming all season long and that natives are better than cultivars. But ...
Summer is here, and trumpets are declaring it, but these trumpets aren’t blaring, they’re glaring. These trumpets are some of my favorite summer flowers, along with bell-shaped flowers. Summer is the ...
Evolutionary biologists have long sought to explain the distribution of traits across the tree of life and, in particular, why some traits are common while others remain rare. The number of taxa with ...