THOUGH “the abominable mystery,” as Darwin called the problem of the origin of Flowering Plants, is by no means solved, there has been before the botanical world for some years a theory of ...

In this episode of Crash Course Botany, we dive into the first few branches of plants’ phylogenetic tree—bryophytes and seedless vascular plants, like mosses and ferns.

A new phylogenetic tree for flowering plants based on more than 9,500 species. Image credit: Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew A tree of life provides a graphic depiction of relationships between species ...

A new, time-calibrated phylogenetic tree for angiosperms based on 353 nuclear genes. ... Almost every plant we eat has a flower, and flowering plants populate every corner of the planet.

A silver cholla cactus glows in the late afternoon light at the Mojave Desert Land Trust’s demonstration garden in Joshua Tree. It’s one of 50 native plants available for sale at the land ...