Plant of the Week
*Epilobium latifolium*
The national flower of Greenland.
Plant of the Week
Monotropa uniflora
Something strange in your neighbourhood? Who you gonna call? Skip the Ghostbusters and try a botanist.
Plant of the Week
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
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.
Plant of the Week
Nesiota elliptica
The Saint Helena olive went extinct in 2003 due to human activity.
Plant of the Week
Equisetum arvense
The common horsetail is one of the surviving representatives of a group of plants that once dominated the forests of the past.
Plant of the Week
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.
Plant of the Week
Sphagnum palustre
Our first moss for Plant of the Week: the blunt-leaved bog moss.
Plant of the Week
Cylindropuntia imbricata
The Tree Cholla Cactus produces beautiful other-worldly gardens
Plant of the Week
Turfgrass
From golf to tennis to football, turfgrass is specially bred for a variety of sports
Plant of the Week
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.
Plant of the Week
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.