The battle for the city of San Diego's next official flower has been narrowed to four floral contenders. Here's what they are ...

The first, which is called the “Elite Inflorescence,” will knock four flowers out of the running ... the options again to a final two that will go head-to-head in the “Corolla Championship.” Voting in ...

They found that a diversity of size and shape of the corolla — the tube-like structure formed by a ring of petals around the flower’s centre, where nectar is typically stored — in the urban flower ...

Ecologists whimsically decided to call the parts that make up a flower its whorls. The first whorl of a flower is known as the calyx, which is the plant’s green, leafy outer structure that ...

The “Your City, Your Flower” campaign will feature three ... the “Final Flora” from March 29-April 7 and the “Corolla Championship” from April 9-14. Vote at sandiegobirdalliance.org ...