A local city council in New Zealand is helping restore two rare native plant species so they don't become extinct. As the Wellington Scoop shared, the Hutt City Council is working to ensure the ...

Researchers are working to unravel the hidden biology of often-persnickety seeds as they age, sleep and awaken Katarina Zimmer, Knowable Magazine Scientists are working to unravel the best ways to ...

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 ...

The wild can be full of surprises. A gardener, who goes by u/Strong-Rise6221, understood it best when they let their garden grow wild with weeds and unknown plants. The gardener’s eye caught one ...

This year, the judges chose Delphinium elatum ‘Alice Artindale’ as their worthy winner. This spectacular delphinium was bred by William Artindale and Son in 1936 and was named after William’s daughter ...

One of the Huntington’s rare and endangered corpse flowers is expected to bloom any day now, drawing hundreds of visitors to see — and smell — the plant in San Marino. This year’s bloom is from the ...

In the forests and on remote offshore islands of Taiwan, a group of conservationists are racing to collect as many rare plant species as they can before they are lost to climate change and human ...