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 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 ...

A Petunia inflata isolate with a novel phenotype of a purple corolla limb with green corolla segments (GCS) was characterized. The GCS have stomata and trichomes on the adaxial side, and resemble ...

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, ...

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 ...

As I compose today’s garden column in the air-conditioned comfort of a small guest room that happens to have a window unit, outside it is high 90s with a heat index of 102. That’s a lot cooler than ...