The research I am conducting at the Chicago Botanic Garden is concerned with hawk moth and bee pollinated species of flowers that fall into the evening primrose family, Onagraceae, and their associated pollinator syndromes. A pollinator syndrome is defined as "a suite of floral traits including rewards, associated with the attraction and utilization of a specific group of animals as pollinators."( Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics Vol. 35, 2004). My research intends to identify whether pollinators that visit flowers of a particular species are similar or the same as predictions made about pollinator type gathered from  pollinator syndromes information. Pollinator syndromes in this case are defined by traits including color, nectar abundance, shape, opening time, etc. Additionally, I am gathering data on the same plant species to determine how different genetic crosses effect seed fitness and viability.