Plants

Scientists are providing information that may help slow the spread of non-native plant species in Hawai'i.

Study finds human hair can work as fertilizer for slow-growing plants.

Iceman may have accidentally drank water containing one of the mosses and used another to wrap food.

The difference comes down to two critical flower-inducing genes.

From the moment we saw it, we knew the place held many great secrets.

Products of chlorophyll breakdown make ripening bananas glow blue under black lights.

Earth may be in the midst of the sixth great mass extinction.

When injured, plants can cry for help via a chemical phone call to the roots.

Plants manufacture own form of aspirin in times of stress.

A plant eats algae.

David Lentz is a paleoethnobotanist from the University of Cincinnati.

Warming shifts some bird ranges northward, tree ranges up mountains.

The parasitic dodder vine taps into the host's communication system.

Bizarre and lethal species make a top 10 new species list.

Scientists have grown an ancient Israeli tree from an excavated seed.

Tree leaves in cold and hot climates stay at the same temperature.

Workers are happier when their offices have green around, a new study found.

Underground insects send chemical signals via plant leaves.

Air pollution takes up flower scent molecules used by bees to find food.