Butterflies are important pollinators and look beautiful fluttering around your yard. These blue fast-growing flowers are ...

Check out the best flowering (and in many cases, low-maintenance) perennials to plant in August because they bloom from fall ...

Purple coneflower Scientific name: Echinacea purpurea Hardiness zones: 3 to 9 Attracts: Birds, bees, and butterflies Size: 2 ...

Purple is all the rage among gardeners and Mother Nature’s palette is well endowed with shades of purple flowers, fruit and foliage. Looking for perennials with purple flowers? Consider bear’s ...

The brilliant purple flowers that appear in pastures and abandoned old fields in central Indiana belong to tall ironweed (Vernonia gigantea).

The color purple has evolved well beyond links to Barney the dinosaur to become a favorite color for politics, hair and flowers. It’s little understood as a hue because royal purple is not the ...

At Las Piletas Ranch Preserve in San Luis Obispo County, a surprising botanical discovery may alter the conservation future of a rare purple California wildflower. Researchers there uncovered a ...

If you’ve had the chance to go hiking this summer in the Colorado Rockies, you may have noticed the numerous wildflowers rising from their sleepy slumbers to adorn the meadows and slopes of our ...