A newly discovered plant found by a national park volunteer in the Texas desert is a small, fuzzy flower that pokes up between rocks. With its limited range, this species could be threatened by ...

Sometimes the best way to kindle a romance is with actual fire. After tracking flowers on a prairie in Minnesota for 21 years, scientists reported this week that the plants reproduce more ...

Now, about eight of these gently scented plants are starting to bloom in a wet depression in the front yard. As July ...

Ever wonder what the Plains Indians used for food? If you answered bison or buffalo, you are partially correct. There's no ...

Woolly mammoths depended on tiny flowering plants for protein. Did the decline of the flowers cause their extinction?

Say hello to the wooly devil. The type of sunflower is a new plant species, identified in Big Bend National Park in Texas. Ovicula biradiata, as it is formally known, is especially notable for ...

After decades of looking for new and exotic plants, gardeners are starting to use what’s local: our native prairie shrubs. “Native shrubs combined with exotics give us a huge palette of… ...

The woolly butterfly bush (Buddleia marrubiifolia) is a near-native from the neighboring Chihuahuan desert. It’s a great pollinator plant, has attractive grey-green leaves and bright orange ...

John Marston can become an expert Survivalist by picking up plenty of herbs and completing these 10 challenges in Red Dead Redemption.

The 30-acre tall grass prairie preserve, with its interpretive centre located at 2795 Ness Ave., is home to more than 160 species of prairie plants as well as prairie wildlife.

The so-called “woolly devil” is tiny, pale and well camouflaged amid limestone-rich rocks and look-alike plants in Texas’s Big Bend National Park, where it was discovered.