Male cardinals with their bright red feathers can make your yard festive all year round. They feed on caterpillars, which can ...

The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources announced on Wednesday that milkweed is the Rare Plant Monitoring Program's ...

WGN’s “Plant Daddy” Tim Joyce is back to share some weekend gardening tips, including how to get rid of Muscari, how to harvest milkweed seeds and more. Got any questions for Tim? Reach ...

There are three major types of diseases that affect blue spruce trees: needlecasts, tip blights, and canker diseases. The two ...

Their task was to identify all the epiphytes — plants that grow on other plants — in the forest canopy. As Jan Wolf, a botanist now at the University of Amsterdam, measured tree trunk girth ...

A highly toxic plant, which can be deadly if ingested, is spreading rapidly across the United States. Poison hemlock (or Conium maculatum) is about to flower in Tennessee, according to the ...

Milkweed (Asclepias) is the only plant on which monarch butterflies will deposit eggs, and from which their larvae will feed. “Milkweed is important,” according to McGaffin, “but it is just ...

Four months after a massive fire ignited in Monterey County at one of the world’s largest lithium-ion battery storage facilities, Pacific Gas & Electric said it intends to reactivate an adjacent ...

Should We Protect Non-Native Species? A New Study Says Maybe May 14, 2025 — A new study found that over a quarter of the world's naturalized plant species are threatened in parts of their native ...