A rare fossil plant reveals how early plants moved water and food, helping to explain the secrets of tree growth.

The Light Eaters: How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth Zoë Schlanger Harper (2024) During the COVID-19 pandemic, while people were tucked away in ...

The tallest plants alive today can grow to over 100 meters tall. But they evolved from ancestors that were just a few ...

Humans make stuff up—including the names and classifications of living things. But those categories are still useful. In this episode of Crash Course Botany, we’ll explore how taxonomy and systematics ...

Plants are classified as annuals, biennials or perennials based on their life cycles. Biennials, like foxglove, have a vegetative year followed by a flowering year. Perennials, including woody shrubs ...

Discover interesting facts about why plants are green, if they feel pain, and if they get cancer. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works.

Mid-sized shrubs fill in gaps and help balance temperature swings. Layering plants helps your garden handle unpredictable ...

When I was a kid, my best friend’s mother had a habit of singing arias to her houseplants. I did not know this at the time, but she was likely under the influence of The Secret Life of Plants, a 1973 ...

The holly and the ivy, though beautiful, when they are both full grown, can absolutely stump even the best gardeners in our ...

While hiking in the foothills of the San Gabriel Mountains as a kid, I’d be poked by yucca spikes, scratched by the tough leaves of oak trees and calmed by the soothing aroma of sages. Back then, I ...