Virtually all of our plant crops are angiosperms. Many angiosperms are herbaceous — not trees or shrubs. Those species are discussed in the Spring Wildflowers and Late Wildflowers stations. Here, we ...

The recent discovery of diverse fossil flowers and floral organs in Cretaceous strata has revealed astonishing details about the structural and systematic diversity of early angiosperms. Exploring the ...

(The latest genetic research, however, indicates that most ancient angiosperm lines included both herbaceous and woody plants.) Unlike trees, which require years to mature and bear seed ...