Conical flowers that produce nectar help attract hummingbirds to your yard. If you're looking for ground cover that ...

Editor's note: Once a month, the OSU Extension master gardener's office of Franklin County profiles a plant that occurs naturally in central Ohio. Seeking a perennial replacement for annual petunias?

Petunias come in many different varieties, which makes them popular bedding plants that appear in gardens and terraces during May and June. This variation is found not only in the petunias available ...

When gardeners look at a petunia, they see the vibrant and versatile blooms of the most popular bedding plant in the U.S. But when plant scientists look at a petunia, they see an important model plant ...

Wild petunia makes a perfect alternative to the non-native and highly invasive Mexican petunia. The flowers of wild petunia are very similar to those of Mexican petunia: They are a lovely shade of ...

A team of researchers from Pomona College and the Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden has figured out how a wild petunia plant is able to fling its seeds so far. In their paper published in the Journal of ...

Nature may have a few things to teach tennis players about backspin. Glue that holds the flower’s podlike fruit together breaks down on contact with water, allowing the fruit to split explosively, ...

Petunias produce pretty summer flowers, and the native Carolina wild petunia is no exception. The wild petunia, scientifically known as Ruellia caroliniensis, is a Coastal Plain native perennial that ...

An international consortium of researchers has sequenced the two wild parent species of the domesticated petunia. The genomes will be a valuable resource for the many scientists who use the petunia to ...