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 ...

Past research has examined how environmental and genetic factors affect plant life stages individually, but a new study models how the three stages (seed, vegetative, and reproductive) interact with ...

The life cycle of a plant. The world is full of different plants, like flowers, trees and vegetables. But most plants grow from a seed or a bulb. There are a series of steps that need to happen for ...

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 ...

Doing this pumpkin life-cycle craft is an adorable way for children to show their families what they’ve learned about the life cycle of a plant. Grow a garden indoors using art supplies. Have kids ...

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 ...

In the history of life on earth, one intriguing mystery is how plants made the transition from water to land and then went on to diversify into the array of vegetation we see today, from simple mosses ...

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 ...