Hydnora is one of the strangest flowering plants ever discovered, a subterranean parasite that survives entirely by draining nutrients from the roots of other plants . It spends most of its life ...

On Earth, plants reflect green light — but on Kepler-186f, they’d likely glow deep red. The reason lies in physics: cooler ...

The spread of species beyond their native habitat is a human-made environmental change on a global scale. Among vascular plants, over 16,000 species have now permanently settled in foreign countries.

An international research team led by the University of Vienna has produced, for the first time, high-resolution global maps of invasion risk for thousands of alien plant species under current ...