This video segment adapted from NOVA explains how flowers play a central role in the reproductive cycle of plants. Their striking array of colors, patterns, fragrances, and nectar all require lots ...

Flowers are one of the ways we understand ourselves; they bear the chief weight of our metaphors for beauty and sex -- what does a bee even mean without a flower? -- and of growth and time and ...

Find a description of the NOVA program First Flower, originally broadcast on PBS on October 31, 2006.