Cyclamens are a great addition or alternative. Cyclamens have attractive speckled foliage, and the flowers come in a range of colors. The most common are white, red, purple and pink. The flowers ...

A species of Australian native plant related to kangaroo paws has been named after the humble rotary clothesline.

Researchers found the plants growing in the different habitats had "significant" differences in several traits, including ...

For decades, ecologists looked at cities as biological deserts. We paved paradise, put up a parking lot, and assumed nature ...

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 ...

Common weeds in the USA include dandelions, crabgrass, and clover. As noted by the Redditor above, these plants can be pretty, and useful, even if they spread around more than people would like. So ...

Moss spores survived nine months outside the space station, revealing surprising strength and new clues about life in space.

Dr. Chris Thorogood from the Oxford Botanic Garden and field biologist Septian Andrikithat made history this week when they found what is believed to be ...

The researchers simulated space conditions by exposing the three tissues to UV radiation and freezing and high temperatures.

With hundreds of thousands of flowers in the world, it can be tough to choose which ones to plant in your garden. Our pro ...

Hesperantha coccinea, also known as the Kaffir lily, is a South African native perennial flower that will bloom right into ...

The first major blast of wintry weather in the U.S. this week brought snow, frigid temperatures and in some places something a little more magical: Frost flowers. Made of thin ribbons of ice that ...