“Are you going to mow the lawn?” Jim asked me the other day. I surveyed the wildflower meadow of wild blue salvia, dandelions and white clover our backyard had become, abuzz with bees, butterflies and ...

The March plant of the month is Salvia coccinea. Known as Scarlet sage, this is drought-tolerant and attracts butterflies and hummingbirds. Up North, salvia is an annual. But here in zone 10b, it ...

Species may respond in three ways to environmental change: adapt, migrate, or go extinct. Studies of latitudinal clines can provide information on whether species have adapted to abiotic stress such ...

Arabidopsis lyrata is a close relative of Arabidopsis thaliana, the model organism for plant molecular biology, and itself is becoming a model for ecology and evolution (Clauss and Koch, 2006). It ...

Inbreeding depression is a key factor influencing mating system evolution in plants, but current understanding of its relationship with selfing rate is limited by a sampling bias with few estimates ...

This spring, our native coralbean, Erythrina herbacea, in our Brevard Discovery Garden (BDG) received numerous visits from hummingbirds. I know this because the tree is full of seed pods, which are ...