How to use (and not use) plant identification phone apps

The University of California Department of Agriculture and Natural Resources (UCANR), has an online plant identification tool ...
USA Today

Heading outdoors? Apps like LeafSnap and Picture Insect can help identify plants and animals.

Summer means spending as much time as possible outdoors. Whether you have a postage-stamp yard in the city or acreage out in the country, knowing which plants and animals share your world can be a ...
The Bulletin

Here's why invasive plants are a problem and what one Connecticut group is doing about it.

Plants have long traveled the world with humans, purposefully transported and planted in regions they had never grown before. The early colonists brought plants, fruit trees, grasses and grains to the ...
Kaleido Scope

How to identify and avoid exposure to poisonous plants this summer

As temperatures rise, many people may start to spend more time outdoors. Experts at the University of Alabama at Birmingham say it is important to be able to identify, avoid and treat reactions from ...