Scientists have ranked all known flowering plants and found that more than 20% of their evolutionary history is now at risk ...
Only about 20% of flowering plants had formal IUCN Red List assessments at the time of the study.
An international team of researchers, including three New York Botanical Garden (NYBG) scientists, used genetic code from more than 9,500 flowering plant species to create the most detailed ...
Asteraceae, a family of flowering plants which includes daisies, sunflowers and asters, are the most diverse group of flowering plants in the world. This plant family comprises around 34,000 species, ...
A study of Britain's native flowering plants has led to new insights into the mysterious process that allows wild plants to breed across species -- one of plants' most powerful evolutionary forces.
A ruderal species is a plant species that is first to colonize disturbed lands. The disturbance may be natural — for example, ...