Plants

A new study of how plants grew in the environments of the dinosaur age offers some new clues about their populations.

A strange plant that needs no sunlight and sucks on underground fungi for nutrients has turned up in Borneo, Malaysia, 151 years after the last time a scientist found it.

Ancient rocks from a remote Canada island contain the oldest algae ever discovered.

Trees generally snap, or at least lose a few branches, when faced with hurricane-strength winds. Not palm trees. These staples of the tropics typically bend during gusty weather.

Vegetables are good for your health, but now there's a whole new way that one veggie could help your heart: Spinach leaves can be used as a scaffold for beating human heart cells, a new study finds.

Scientists have discovered what may be the world’s oldest plant-like fossils, estimated to be 1.6 billion years old.

The DEA is planning on banning a drug called kratom. What is it and why is it used?

A new demonic flower species looks like the devil and has clawed petals.

Having a lot of green around your home might help you live longer, according to a new study of more than 100,000 U.S. women.

Cretaceous flower seeds, recently discovered by scientists, represent the oldest known seeds of flowering plants, dating back 110 to 125 million years.

Sacred Datura (Datura wrightii) is a night-blooming herbaceous perennial that is common in the arid regions of the United States, Baja and northern Mexico.

Carnivorous pitcher plants use falling raindrops to force prey to their doom, a new study finds.

Common mullein, Verbascum thapsus, is a perennial herb that was first introduced into the United States in the mid-1700s. Check out these photos of a fascinating plant.

A rare bloom from a huge tropical plant has crowds in Denver waiting in line for hours.

The first-ever bloom of a stinky "corpse flower" in the Rocky Mountain region is happening here today (Aug. 19).

"Trudy" the corpse flower burst into bloom at the UC Botanical Garden in Berkeley, California, on Saturday, July 25. These rare plants smell like rotting meat.

People can be allergic to marijuana pollen, and with the increasing cultivation of the plant, allergies are rising, experts say.

Caroline Farrior uses math to understand the old plants play in the global carbon cycle so scientists will be able to predict the path of climate change.

In a matter of days, perhaps hours, a rare corpse flower will bloom in upstate New York. True to its name, the plant is expected to unleash a stench like rotting flesh.