Standing before a field carpeted with flowers is a beloved, awe-inspiring tradition around the world. There are plenty of places to catch a riot of spring and summer colors-without destroying ...

Photos from around the world show cherry blossoms in full bloom this year. Take a look before they're gone. Japan is famous ...

Plant biologists examined records for nearly 1,200 individual corpse flower plants from 111 institutions around the world. The data and records were severely lacking and not standardized. Without ...

It was later marketed as The Christmas Flower, and its popularity spread around the world. This story was published in December 2023. Quiz: How much do you know about Christmas in books?

Editor's Note: "Human/Nature: A Smithsonian guide for exploring our connections to plants, gardens, and the natural world around us" is now available for viewing and download, with additional ...

The world’s largest global auction for flowers ... In 2015, the global trade in flowers was worth around €15bn (£10.6bn), with stems shuttled between continents with breath-taking speed.

Mistletoe, a group of plants in the order Santalales, are found around the world. Only some species of mistletoe are parasitic. The traditional parasitic mistletoe we think of is Viscum album. Most ...

There are currently around 630 species of carnivorous plant known to ... that carnivory exists in the plant world. Some carnivorous plants catch their prey in snap-closing traps made of modified leaf ...

Montsechia’s origins in freshwater lakes challenge the idea that flowers evolved on land before ... In the surprisingly messy world of plant taxonomy, Montsechia has been classified as a conifer ...