Duckweed, a tiny freshwater floating plant, is an excellent laboratory model for scientists to discover new strategies for growing hardier and more sustainable crops in an age of climate change and ...

image: Duckweed, a tiny freshwater floating plant, is an excellent laboratory model for scientists to discover new strategies for growing hardier and more sustainable crops in an age of climate change ...

Waterlilies, or Nymphaea, are the quintessential pond plant. Not only do they produce attractive round leaves that rest on the water’s surface, but they bloom in various shades ranging from pink to ...

The best time to see this plant is in the morning, just as the sun is coming up, while you quietly paddle in the backwater end of a pond, or perhaps inside a mysterious Carolina bay. By the hundreds, ...

WHAT: This variety of pond cypress produces a froth of feathery, bright green foliage arranged around an arrow-straight trunk. It is an unusual deciduous conifer with a slender, delicate growth habit ...

My annual quest for the world’s tiniest blossoms of the world’s smallest and most productive plant isn’t turning out so well, again. Although this is the time of year that duckweeds flower, I have ...

What: This selection of pond cypress (Taxodium distichum var. imbricatum ‘Nutans’) is a froth of feathery, bright green foliage arranged around an arrow-straight trunk. This unusual deciduous conifer ...

The ponds at Hawthorne Hill Nature Center in Elgin give visitors a chance to learn about ecology, and one of the center’s missions is to educate people on protecting nature through stewardship and ...

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A report released Wednesday indicates that Plant Scherer in Monroe County is among the coal-fired power plants in the U.S. that put the most toxic heavy metals into ash ponds like the one that ...