In some deserts of the world, a series of heavy rains can trigger many species of plant to flower at the same time. Beneath Death Valley lies a massive seed bank of desert wildflowers and when heavy ...

The important features of vascular anatomy of the flower of certain unusual forms of Ranunculus, Caltha, and Delphinium, together with the important features of floral vascular anatomy of the families ...

An ambitious effort to reconstruct the world’s first flower has seeded a debate over what forms a blossom can and cannot take. The project, called eFLOWER, combined an unparalleled database of plant ...

American Journal of Botany, Vol. 89, No. 12 (Dec., 2002), pp. 1867-1883 (17 pages) The floral structure of Alliaceae is assessed in relation to the systematics of the family, especially the nature of ...

Roses are red, violets are blue. Everybody knows that, but what makes them so? Although plant breeders were aware of some of the genes involved, there was as yet no quantitative study of how pigment ...