THIS little book is intended for students who have already studied the elementary principles of botanical science. It is divided into three parts, dealing with respectively, the most general ...

Douglas E. Soltis is at the Florida Museum of Natural History and in the Department of Biology, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida 32611, USA. A number of botanical innovations accompanied ...

A recent surprise in my garden was the first appearance of a striking blossom that I had not seen previously and did not expect. It is featured among today’s images. The blossom was from a plant ...

Once upon a time on Earth, there was a first flower. Nature provides plenty of cues to help us imagine what the planet looked like 250 million years ago. But we lack concrete evidence in order to ...

A new study reconstructs the evolution of flowers over the past 140 million years and sheds new light on what the earliest flowers might have looked like. A new study published this week in Nature ...

WASHINGTON, April 24 (Reuters) - Flowering plants - from corn, wheat, rice and potatoes to maple, oak, apple and cherry trees as well as roses, tulips, daisies and dandelions and even the corpse ...

Flowering plants with at least 300,000 species are by far the most diverse group of plants on Earth. They include almost all the species used by people for food, medicine, and many other purposes.

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, ...

Recent studies suggest planting strips of wildflowers alongside crops boosts pollination and promotes higher yields. But these aren’t the only benefits. Adding wildflowers to your farm stabilizes the ...