Snapdragons are charming tall plants, and flower in a range of bright colors. In Spain, where snapdragons grow wild, these flower colors show a remarkable pattern: When driving up a road from ...

Studying the ways that magenta and yellow flowers intermingle paints a vibrant picture of how the plants exchange genetic information—and what keeps each color variety unique A bee buzzes by a hybrid ...

A hybrid snapdragon. Snapdragons are usually magenta or yellow. In the valley of Planoles in Spain, these two types come together, forming hybrid plants in a variety of colors. On the border between ...

Every season, scientists from the Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA) go on field trips to the Pyrenees. Their mission: gather snapdragon flowers to understand their genetic makeup.