What do turkey corn, swamp lousewort, American skunk cabbage, and sneezeweed (gesundheit) have in common? Besides having ...

(tomaz sedonja/Moment/Getty Images) The vivid hue of the lush green hills of Ireland may not have arisen from the mechanism ...

Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to ...

While many plants thrive together and coexist in harmony in the same garden plot, others are like oil and water. If you want a successful harvest in the vegetable patch or to grow beautiful blooms in ...

Scientists at the University of California-Riverside recently discovered a chemical that plants produce that could help prevent infections in medical patients. Science Daily reported on the findings, ...

The Light Eaters: How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth Zoë Schlanger Harper (2024) During the COVID-19 pandemic, while people were tucked away in ...

Plants are classified as annuals, biennials or perennials based on their life cycles. Biennials, like foxglove, have a vegetative year followed by a flowering year. Perennials, including woody shrubs ...

The Spelman College students' project is called PlantGPT, and the goal is to help anyone have a green thumb.

When I was a kid, my best friend’s mother had a habit of singing arias to her houseplants. I did not know this at the time, but she was likely under the influence of The Secret Life of Plants, a 1973 ...

Associate Head of Research and Knowledge Exchange - Reader in Plant Science, Edge Hill University This morning, my six-year-old came into our bedroom and started reading a story from a book. She ...