The tallest plants alive today can grow to over 100 meters tall. But they evolved from ancestors that were just a few ...

A rare fossil plant reveals how early plants moved water and food, helping to explain the secrets of tree growth.

The first vascular plants weren't anything spectacular to look at. They comprised smallish shoots, only about 50cm high, with thick stems and firm, spiny leaves. These vascular plants had ingeniously ...

Clubmosses are not true mosses — they are the oldest group of vascular plants, which evolved 410 million years ago and ...

The colonization and expansion of plants on land represent a defining landmark for the path of life on Earth. Terrestrial colonization has been attributed to a series of major innovations in plant ...

Forget your favorite flowers, because we’re talking all about the mean green sporing machines. In this episode of Crash Course Botany, we dive into the first few branches of plants’ phylogenetic ...

A team of 24 researchers pulled together information from plant checklists across the two continents and added it to the Tropicos database. With the details of all of the species in one place, ...

Seven to nine percent of all vascular plant species occurring in Europe are globally threatened, according to a new study. Researchers combined Red Lists of endangered plant species in Europe with ...

Plants rely on efficient internal transport systems to distribute essential mineral nutrients, yet how this distribution is ...

Plant researchers and bioinformatics researchers have succeeded for the first time in identifying the functions of the different cell types in the leaf vasculature of plants. The leaf vasculature of ...