A bee collects pollen from a flower on a Mexican bush sage plant. As its name suggests, Mexican bush sage is native to Mexico and parts of South America. It is a tough, drought-tolerant ...

The sage plant has gray-green edible leaves and flowers that can range in color from blue and purple to white or pink. Sage has a long history of medicinal use for ailments ranging from mental ...

Salvia is a plant genus belonging to the Lamiaceae family or the sage family. The Salvia genus is ... Further reading: Discover 100 amazing types of purple flowers. The post 75 Beautiful Blue Flowers ...

Osmanthus is a genus of about 30 flowering plants belonging to the Oleaceae (olive) plant family. These woody shrubs and ...

Scientists think they have the answer to a puzzle that baffled even Charles Darwin: How flowers evolved and spread to become the dominant plants on Earth. Flowering plants, or angiosperms ...

Only six years old at the time, I was at first put off by these garish plants. Such strange and vibrant flowers seemed out of place among the respectable beans, peppers, spinach, and other ...

It was heralded as the earliest known angiosperm, or flowering plant, and it is now thought to be roughly 125 million years old. In the following video clips, fossil images, and drawings ...

However, many types of lavender can thrive in the same conditions as scarlet sage. Hummingbirds and other pollinators love the spiky flowers on these fragrant plants. Choose your favorite ...

Unlike animals, plants don’t need a male and a female because their flowers have both male parts and female parts. Pollen in plants is like sperm in animals. It comes from the male part of the ...

Next year, consider dedicating some space to plants that feed hummingbirds and other pollinators. In the meantime, keep an eye out for the towering, colorful flower spikes of Mexican bush sage and ...