Studies of the pollen loads present on stigmas of flowers of the self-incompatible tristylous Lythrum junceum in Morocco indicate that the position of the stigma has an important effect on the ...

Q I am writing to you on behalf of my 98-year-old grandmother. She still enjoys planting flowers in her yard. In the 1980s, her father had this flowering plant growing in his flowerbeds in Mena. He ...

My Cotswold garden is very dry, but I am able to grow the moisture-loving Lythrum salicaria 'Feuerkerze' in the shallow part of my small pond, where it thrives. From late July until early September, ...

1 Small populations of reward-producing plants are likely to be less attractive to animal pollinators than large populations. As a result, both the quantity and the proportion of compatible pollen ...