For many garden enthusiasts, a thriving plot or bed is less of a finish line and more of a starting point. So what’s the next step? “I like to think of greenhouses as kind of like gardening 2.0,” says ...

Several compact species make ideal houseplants.

There are moments when the land seems to burst into celebration, covering itself in color so bold it feels unreal. One day ...

A Guide to Reproductive Diversity,” the second work by the author of “The Ecology of Center City, Philadelphia.” Frank, a ...

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 lipstick-like appearance— its flowers are shorter, wider, and yellowish ...

Lipstick vines in Taiwan look different from their red-flowered relatives. When scientists dug into the family tree, they uncovered an evolutionary mystery.

Scientists found a tropical vine that changed its flowers without losing its pollinators, revealing a more flexible path to plant evolution.

Proteins are the building blocks of life. These biomolecules comprise chains of amino acids that fold into precise shapes to ...

DNA's iconic double helix does more than "just" store genetic information. Under certain conditions it can temporarily fold into unusual shapes. Researchers at Umeå University, Sweden, have now shown ...