A new study has upended our perception of the colour wheel, revealing that purple is not a "real" colour in the spectral ...

Whenever I’m planning a new garden, no matter what mood I’m trying to create, I always include some purple plants. I look for a variety of purple flowering plants including purple flowering bushes, ...

“We have a house together in Oklahoma and during the pandemic we came across this very old building on the land and there were some purple irises, which someone must have planted centuries a ...

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A thick thatched roof topped with purple iris flowers shelters this timber sheep pen in Kyoto, Japan, which has been designed by local architecture practice 2m26. Named Hitsujigoya, meaning sheep ...

tatsienensis, S. veitchiana, and S. wenchengiae. Morphologically, Saussurea degeensis is characterized by its distinctive purple bracts, uncolored phyllary apices, and simple inflorescence.

Platforms such as iNaturalist and eBird encourage people to observe and document nature, but how accurate is the ecological data that they collect? In a new study published in Citizen Science ...

After so many years, what makes the beloved flower so unique? Though there are many varieties of bluish, purple and lavender-colored wildflowers, some purple patches popping up across North Texas ...