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An unsung Alabama waterway is one of the most biologically diverse places in the nation, home to rare flora and fauna
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Help Defend Against the Invaders
They have come to our country from all over the world, brought here in the bowels of ships, in the cargo holds of planes, even on the bottoms of our shoes
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Able to identify the orchids in these photos?
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An ancient plant becomes a new sensation
Wild Things: Life As We Know It
Mammoths, Clownfish and Traveling Plants
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35 Who Made a Difference: Mark Plotkin
An ethnobotanist takes up the cause of rain forest conservation
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35 Who Made a Difference: Wes Jackson
In Kansas, a plant geneticist sows the seeds of sustainable agriculture
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Spotted knapweed is driving out native plants and destroying rangeland, costing ranchers millions. Can anybody stop this outlaw?
Both ginseng and dolphins evoke passionate emotions
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Getting to the Root of Ginseng
Questions about the herb’s health benefits haven’t cooled the red-hot market in wild American ginseng
Aggressive weed that “grows like the devil” and will not die is manna for sheep, cows and folks who use it to cure hangovers, weave baskets and make jelly
The study of how plants moved north after the last ice age could mean new directions for conservation
For archaeologists, the proof is in the pudding or rather, in the agave, cactus and other goodies
Wastewater Problem? Just Plant a Marsh
For some of the toughest environmental cleanups, plants can do it better and cheaper than we can
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A Onetime Rancher Wages Lonely War to Save Rare Plants
Working alone, by hand, one man is turning 100 acres of alien trees into a refuge for Hawaii’s endangered botanical treasures
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