Students investigate plant life cycles through gardening. In this lesson, students investigate plant life cycles through gardening. Mrs. Norris will clear out old plants, plant seeds, draw and compare ...

LA JOLLA (August 19, 2025)—Nearly everything you know about plants was first discovered in a plant you’ve likely never heard of. Arabidopsis thaliana, also known as thale cress, is a small, flowering ...

Occasionally, friends have asked me about the life cycles of plants, so here I will attempt to summarize them, in the context of plant evolution. I set the stage by describing the basic pattern of ...

Changes in climate affect the timings of various points in the life cycle of plants, including when flowers bloom in spring and when leaves wither in autumn. (Shutterstock) “Si sta come d’autunno ...

Plants are classified as annuals, biennials or perennials based on their life cycles. Biennials, like foxglove, have a vegetative year followed by a flowering year. Perennials, including woody shrubs ...

For 25 years, Carol Augspurger visited a patch of ancient woods near Urbana, Illinois to look at the same 25 one-square-meter plots of earth she first demarcated for study in 1993. Her 600,000+ ...

This lesson plan provides students with evidence that all living things grow and change as they progress through their life cycle. All of the activities detailed in this lesson plan can be done with ...

LUTHERSVILLE, Ga. — It's one of the more cherished stories 11Alive has reported on recently, racking up millions of views on YouTube - and now it's coming to its natural end. The century plant sitting ...

A new special issue of Applications in Plant Sciences, “Methodologies in Gametophyte Biology,” highlights an often overlooked aspect of the botanical world. A collection of 15 articles describes ...

Reporting on the first community-wide assessment of 67 bee species of the Colorado Rockies, ecologists say 'phenological mismatch,' changing timing of life cycles between bees and flowers, caused by ...

Whenever I wander around garden centers, I try to listen to what shoppers are saying as they select plants to take home. I learn a lot when listening to comments from gardeners about which plants they ...