The sunflower family tree has revealed that flower symmetry evolved multiple times independently, a process called convergent evolution, among the members of this large plant family, according to ...

Scientists have identified both a new species and genus of sunflower in the Texas desert, but climate change may threaten its ...

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 ...

A new plant species, dubbed the "wooly devil," has been discovered in Big Bend National Park by park staff and confirmed by ...

"O. biradiata is a member of the sunflower family, although it does not resemble its sunburst-shaped relatives at first glance," said Issac Lichter Marck, a researcher at the California Academy of ...

"O. biradiata is a member of the sunflower family, although it does not resemble its sunburst-shaped relatives at first glance," explains Academy researcher Isaac Lichter Marck, PhD. Even if you ...

A whole team assembled to study samples of these plants. "It was very clear at first that it was a member of the sunflower family, because all members of the sunflower family have flowers that are ...

"O. biradiata is a member of the sunflower family, although it does not resemble its sunburst-shaped relatives at first glance," Isaac Lichter Marck, one of the authors of the study, told the ...