One of gardeners' frequent challenges is to integrate plants that provide attractive foliage with more colorful flowering species. Then again there are "one-stop-shopping" plants such as the ...

Each year the National Garden Bureau selects a flower to promote, and this year Centaurea is in the spotlight. Centaurea actually includes a number of species that gardeners are more familiar with by ...

Studies over the last two decades demonstrate that hybridization has played an integral role in the evolution of several sections of the genus Centaurea. Nevertheless, natural hybridization between ...

Centaurea is a very large genus with many venerable garden – and some disreputable – species. The name is from the Greek kentauros, a centaur, who was believed to have introduced us to the medicinal ...

Soil microbes may affect the way exotic invasive plants interact with native neighbors. We investigated the effects of soil fungi on interactions between the invasive weed Centaurea maculosa (spotted ...