Nelumbo nucifera
A flower that holds itself at blood heat on a cold day, and seeds that can wait a thousand years for the right one.
Plant of the Week
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Melampyrum cristatum
Crested cow-wheat can flourish for years after a verge is cut. Or it can be wiped out by the same machine, if the cut comes a month too late.
Nesiota elliptica
The Saint Helena olive went extinct in 2003 due to human activity.
Equisetum arvense
The common horsetail is one of the surviving representatives of a group of plants that once dominated the forests of the past.
Lemna minor
One gardener's pond scum is a spaceflight crop, a biofuel and a pollution sponge, all folded into a plant smaller than your fingernail.
Sphagnum palustre
Our first moss for Plant of the Week: the blunt-leaved bog moss.
Cylindropuntia imbricata
The Tree Cholla Cactus produces beautiful other-worldly gardens
Turfgrass
From golf to tennis to football, turfgrass is specially bred for a variety of sports
Vellozia sessilis
Once known from only two sites in Brazil’s rocky Cerrado highlands, Vellozia sessilis is now helping show how fieldwork and citizen science can protect microendemic plants.
Loudetiopsis chrysothrix
The capim-brinco-de-princesa brings together the beauty of the dry-season Cerrado, community seed collection and a new vision for native landscaping.
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