The plant was first spotted near a popular picnic site within a forest. But subsequent surveys have found fewer than 20 ...

Hidden beneath rainforest floors, a newly identified species shows how much biodiversity can still surface in the most ...

Rare plants are no longer the secret obsession of eccentric collectors hidden away in greenhouses. Today, the fascination ...

Researchers in China are celebrating the reemergence of a flower that was once thought to be extinct for over a century, according to GD Today. Primulina tabacum is a "calciphilous perennial herb ...

Scientists named 190 new plants and fungi in 2025, many already threatened. New DNA tools are speeding discovery as habitat ...

Middlemist's Red camellia growing in a garden - Pridannikov/Getty Images Camellia japonica 'Middlemist's Red' is one of the rarest flowering plants in the world. It was first collected from China in ...

At Las Piletas Ranch Preserve in San Luis Obispo County, a surprising botanical discovery may alter the conservation future of a rare purple California wildflower. Researchers there uncovered a ...

This is the moment a scientist finds a rare flower after a long 13-year search. A team of researchers, including Dr Chris Thorogood, associate professor of biology at the University of Oxford, found ...

PORTLAND, Ore.—The Center for Biological Diversity petitioned the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Thursday to protect the Ochoco lomatium under the Endangered Species Act. These rare flowers in the ...

Environmental group seeks federal protection for the orange-blossomed Allred's flax, discovered in 2011 and living amid ...

Hidden in the wet, shady woods of northwest New Jersey blooms a remarkable and rare plant – Yellow Hammond’s Spring Beauty. Found nowhere else on Earth, it’s just one example of the many plants that ...