This climbing plant with large, gorgeous flowers in an array of colors can certainly liven up your boring fence and bring ...

Katherine Gallagher is a writer and sustainability expert. She holds a B.A. in English Literature from Chapman University and a Sustainable Tourism certificate from the GSTC. An evergreen flowering ...

There was one northern catalpa tree in my neighborhood when I was a child. I didn’t know what it was, but I loved that tree. In June, it had clusters of large bell-shaped, ruffled white flowers with ...

About 92 million years ago in what's now central Utah, a terrible storm blew over a huge flowering tree, which was washed down a river and into an ancient delta. Sediments buried part of the tree's ...

The flower measures roughly an inch across and is at least three times larger than all other known amber-encased blossoms. Carola Radke / Museum für Naturkunde Berlin In 1872, scientists examined a ...

Dear Roger: My grandmother gave me a tree that she called a butterfly tree. It gets gorgeous, fragrant blooms in the late summer that the butterflies, hummingbirds, and hummingbird moths absolutely ...

Vitex chaste trees are beautiful and virtually carefree summer-blooming shrubby trees that attract a wide variety of pollinators. It’s a fast grower that produces dense, upright panicles of flowers, ...

The fossilization process is an unrelenting slog of decay, compression and erosion that can take millions of years and favors the preservation of tough material such as bones, teeth and shells. But ...

A new sunflower family tree used skimmed genomes to increase the number of species sampled, revealing that flower symmetry evolved multiple times independently, a process called convergent evolution, ...