Native plants have a symbiotic relationship with native wildlife and evolved within local environment. Here, a monarch rests on a blazing star, a native wildflower. Native plant species are better ...

Clyde, North Carolina has seen devastating damage from extreme storms over the past twenty years — Helene, in 2024, was just the most recent. Repeated rains from named storms like Ivan and Francis in ...

Growing plants that are native to your region can be one of the best things a gardener can do. In this video, I give a primer ...

As you first begin considering your approach, Warren has some suggestions.

Households across the West are increasingly ditching the smooth green lawns of the stereotypical American dream and attempting to grow native plants instead — a practice Indigenous communities ...

Organizers say the goal isn’t to turn beginners into botanists overnight, but to “plant the seed of ecological literacy” — helping residents recognize that knowing and valuing native plants is the ...

The recent boom in native-plant interest focuses mainly on trees, shrubs, grasses, and perennial flowers – by far the main workhorse plants of Pennsylvania landscapes. But even with the diversity ...

MADISON, Wis. -- If you want to spruce up your garden with some native Wisconsin plants, then Madison's public libraries are the place to go this week. From Monday, while supplies last, eight of ...

At the La Brea Tar Pits and Museum, Jessie George and other paleobotanists — the folks who study ancient plants the way paleontologists study prehistoric bones — are compiling a list of California ...

Milkweed is vital for monarch butterflies, serving as the only plant for laying eggs and feeding caterpillars. Five of Wisconsin's 13 native milkweed species are listed as endangered, threatened, or ...