Need a break? Play the USA TODAY Daily Crossword Puzzle. Chinese-hat plant (Holmskioldia sanguinea) is aptly named. Its flowers have a unique hatlike shape. They are composed of dark orange disks ...

If you’d like to have months of warm-season color from unusual flowers that are irresistible to butterflies and hummingbirds, install Chinese hat plants. By far the more familiar of the two species ...

Whether berets, derbies or baseball caps, people around the world wear a remarkable assortment of hats – which is probably why numerous plants have common names that reflect their hat-shaped blossoms.

Blog posts represent the views of CFR fellows and staff and not those of CFR, which takes no institutional positions. Lincoln Davidson is a research associate for Asia Studies at the Council on ...

Enjoy a colorful, festive virtual talk with multi-talented Chinese American artist Terri Wong. Seven years ago, she started restoring, collecting and actually wearing antique Chinese clothing. From an ...