A new survey of Italy's alien vascular flora documents dozens of species, from Bidens pilosa to Taxodium distichum, crossing ...

More than 2,500 plant species have the potential to invade the Arctic at the expense of the species that belong there. Norway is one of the areas that is particularly at risk. Species that are not ...

An international research team led by the University of Vienna has produced, for the first time, high-resolution global maps of invasion risk for thousands of alien plant species under current ...

Johannesburg is planting 120 indigenous trees as part of efforts to remove invasive plants and restore the city’s green ...

A floristic compilation adds native plant records across Italian regions, revises alien-plant status and establishes a new ...

Hydnora is one of the strangest flowering plants ever discovered, a subterranean parasite that survives entirely by draining nutrients from the roots of other plants . It spends most of its life ...

The spread of species beyond their native habitat is a human-made environmental change on a global scale. Among vascular plants, over 16,000 species have now permanently settled in foreign countries.

Scientists found "alien" water signature in horsetail plants. Discovery may reshape understanding of water and ancient climate. Horsetail's water mimics chemistry seen in meteorites. In a discovery ...

Today’s India is blanketed with plant species that seem so routine, so much a part of the landscape, it's tempting to think they've always grown here. Some hug the highways, others sprawl across ...