Headless sunflower plants trade beauty for brawn, pumping growth energy toward leaves instead of seed. Inside the green biomass hides the muscle of industry and empire: natural rubber. Could ...

A new fuzzy plant species called the "Wooly Devil" has been discovered amongst the arid landscapes of Big Bend National Park ...

“O. biradiata is a member of the sunflower family, although it does not resemble its sunburst-shaped relatives at first glance.” The team sequenced the plant’s DNA and compared it with other ...

However, you don't need to spray the delicious fruit with chemical pesticides to exterminate the leaf-footed invaders. Instead, you can plant sunflowers, specifically peredovik varieties ...

The Wooly Devil is what botanists call a "belly plant"-so tiny that it can only be properly observed while lying on the ...

The plant, formally known as Ovicula biradiata, is especially notable for being the simultaneous discovery of a new species and genus. It was found with help from the community science app iNaturalist ...

biradiata is a member of the sunflower family ... a references to the white “wool” that covers the small plant's leaves. Biradiata is a reference to the strap-shaped petals on each flower.