Researcher Septian Andriki collapsed in tears upon discovering the rare Rafflesia hasseltii plant in Indonesia.

When choosing which flowering annuals to plant that will last all summer, it's tempting to fall back on tried-and-true picks — you know, the kind you see all around your neighborhood without fail year ...

Would a plant by any other name stink so bad? An extremely rare corpse flower dramatically bloomed at the Brooklyn Botanical Garden Friday for the first time in Big Apple history — unleashing a putrid ...

(WJW) — The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service wants a rare wildflower removed from the federal list of Endangered and Threatened Plants thanks to its recovery. According to the FWS, Virginia sneezeweed ...

SALEM — A rare flower found only in a few secluded places high in the Carolina mountains opens its petals to the world in March, a sign to all those who can see it that warmer weather is finally on ...

DEXTER, Mich. (WXYZ) — For over half their lives, twins Rainey and Evelyn Hauser have shared their dad's attention with a leafy sibling of sorts — an endangered ...

It's sweaty stinky time again at the Huntington Library, Art Gallery, and Botanical Gardens. One of its rare corpse flowers is about to bloom, in all its putrescence. In the next 10 to 12 days, expect ...

DEXTER, Michigan (WWJ) -- A rare corpse flower is now in bloom in Dexter. The plant gets its name from its pungent smell of rotting flesh, but to its owners, it's known as "Corpsy." It has set the ...

As the new millennium neared, only 10 places remained throughout the prairies of the South Puget Sound region where the bright, yellow flowers of the golden paintbrush could be found. Federal ...

Molly Parren was tracking a wood turtle in Vermont when she smelled something surprising, yet familiar. The amphibian scientist for the state’s wildlife agency traced the smell to a rare wild garlic ...

Corpse plants definitely earn their nickname. Their pungent odors attract not only the carrion insects – beetles and flies normally drawn to decomposing meat – that pollinate the plants, but also ...