Long stems and long-lasting flowers make camassia a delightful cut flower. The star-shaped flowers open sequentially from the ...

As the holiday season comes upon us you may want to decorate your home with some lovely colorful flowering plants. Besides poinsettias, there are holiday cacti that have flowers that may be white, ...

The plant was last seen in 1965 on Santa Cruz Island — one of the few places it's known to have existed in California.

With its unique leaf shape and bright purple flowers, henbit is fairly easy to identify, but its botanical doppelgangers ...

Technically speaking, the aster family is a botanical crazy quilt of composite bloomers (plants whose inflorescences contain ...

Alluring, like sirens, some vicious weeds produce beautiful flowers in calming purple hues. Here are the problematic blossoms ...

I have planted and grown these bulbs for many years in my own garden, and come April and May, when the purple and white ...

Q: I have nine pots of what I’m pretty sure is purple heart (wandering dude) on my apartment balcony. They came from a bed in my sister’s front yard. What’s the best approach for their cold weather ...

Canada thistle (Cirsium arvense) is an aggressive, invasive plant. Here's how it spreads and how to identify it so it doesn't ...

While its flowers aren't strictly purple ... It produces mildly aromatic, rose-red petals atop purple stems, charming ...

When blooming, the bell-shaped flowers clump at the end of the stem. The flowers may be shades of pink, white, purple, or yellow. A member of the carrot family, this plant is known as one of the ...