Heidrich’s Colorado Tree Farm Nursery has been serving the Colorado Springs community with their abundance of trees, plants, ...

10 Plant Families To Learn Apiaceae (The Carrot Family) Also known as umbellifers, plants in this family include carrot, parsnip, celery, parsley, angelica, anise, caraway, coriander, cumin, dill ...

5 plants with thorns and spines to avoid in family gardens Regardless of where you live or your US hardiness zone , there are many thousands of trees, shrubs and perennials to choose from.

Charles Darwin's frustration with the evolutionary origin of flowering plants--he called it "an abominable mystery"--stood for more than a century, as hypotheses, like flowers, bloomed and faded.

The family tree that has now been created covers around 60 % of the known flowering plant genera. It is based on a gigantic amount of data that would take a single computer 18 years to process.

Recently, after writing about mangoes, I received the following email from Steve Huffman: “It might be worth mentioning that mango sap can cause skin irritation similar to poison ivy. When I was a ...

Plums are a kind of stone fruit that belong to the rose (Rosaceae) family. This plant family includes nearly 5,000 species including flowers, trees and shrubs, plus foods like raspberries, pears ...

Just as with trees, wind-pollinated plants are generally more likely to cause allergy symptoms. It seems counterintuitive but plants like chrysanthemum (also a member of the aster family) and baby ...

So, a few hundred million years later, a cousin of the bryophytes showed up, forming another branch on the plant family tree: seedless vascular plants. They reproduce via spores, ...

Over 38 species of butterflies and moths use the tree as a host plant. A member of the laurel family, the buds, twigs, leaves and roots of the sassafras tree have a lemony, spicy fragrance when ...

Fifteen years after Daniel Hinkley collected ripe seed in Vietnam, Seattle sees a Rhodoleia parvipetala bloom for the first time in North America.