Over the years of producing this column, I have mainly written about the considerable diversity of wildlife that can be observed throughout the Great State of Texas. But over the last year or so, I ...

A new taxonomic field guide reveals the overlooked beauty and medicinal worth of the dayflowers of the Western Ghats threatened by reckless urbanisation Indigenous Indian names for dayflowers present ...

Plants can brighten up any space, from a garden bed full of summer veggies in the sun to a windowsill hosting a potted succulent, but not every leafy favorite is safe. We’re not talking about lawn ...

A new study found that a common flower is actually carnivorous. The flower, the western false asphodel, is a white flower common in the Pacific Northwest. Researchers found that tiny hairs along the ...

THE desire to know the names of wild flowers is very widespread and by no means confined to those who take any particular interest in botanical science. For such as these there has been no easy book ...

HUNTSVILLE, Alabama-- Dear Harvey, Can you help me out and tell me what this bush is? I rooted it about 15 years ago from an old timey plant my mother had in Gadsden. She loved it so much and called ...