Zimmer and her colleagues began looking in their shared data for groups of plants with common inherited traits, hoping eventually to identify a common ancestor to all flowering plants. Results to ...

Flowering plants represent about one-sixth of all ... Hint: Only a very specialized pollinator can reach this flower's nectar. The common blue violet has a variety of insect pollinators, but ...

For those thinking ahead to spring gardening, a biologist explains what to focus on when designing a garden with pollinators ...

One common example of “cheating” occurs when ... Most communities include many more flowering plants and animal pollinators than are represented in this example, resulting in a network of ...

Modern scrub mints, delicate flowering plants that grow mostly in Florida, likely result from ancient hybridization, according to a recent study I published with colleagues. Scrub mints are a clade – ...