Editor’s note: Once a month OSU Extension Master Gardener Volunteers in Franklin County profile a plant that occurs naturally in central Ohio. Often, the common name given to a plant reflects the ...

Most people in Florida, if asked politely, would probably not be able to tell you the name of a field botanist in their area. Now, there are quite a number of different kinds of people who study ...

"To one whose childhood was passed in the country some fifty years ago the name and sight of this plant [white boneset] is fraught with unpleasant memories. The attic or woodshed was hung with bunches ...

[Answer: “Late boneset,” “White boneset”, Eupatorium serotinum] * * * John Nelson is the retired curator of the A. C. Moore Herbarium at the University of South Carolina in Columbia SC. As a public ...

There are a wide diversity of wetland systems in coastal New England: marshes, swamps, bogs and wet meadows, each with their own varieties of dominant vegetation. While most of us can easily point out ...

There’s a moment in “High Fidelity,” the cult 2000 film about the romantic trials of a down-on-his-luck record store owner, that Maggie Denman is especially fond of. In the scene, a snobbish store ...

There's something magical about summer nights filled with the soft blinks of fireflies. Whether you call them lightning bugs or "those little glowing things," these tiny insects bring nostalgia to ...