Q. Most examples of unusual wildlife are animals. What plants do you think are notable or at least interesting in some way? A. I have received this question before, the first time being from Joab ...

Sex in the garden is more straightforward for the birds and the bees than it’s for the plants. Reproductive processes vary among flowering plants; for many, there is more than one option. When ...

More than 200 years ago, French botanist René Desfontaines instructed a student to monitor the behavior of Mimosa pudica plants as he drove them around Paris in a carriage. Mimosa pudica quickly ...

Maybe you are mulling over your seed choices for 2021 in your favorite gardening catalogs, or perhaps you’ve wondered about some of the gardening terms bandied about in horticultural conversations. Do ...

Some plants lure us into a false sense of security by sitting there looking pretty. Others live sordid lives of foul behavior, employing nefarious means to defend themselves and extend their dominion.

MADIGAN ARMY MEDICAL CENTER, Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Wash. – According to the Alliance for Science, which is part of a nonprofit research institute affiliated with Cornell University, 1 in 10 ...

The idea that plants might be intelligent, and endowed with human abilities such as seeing, feeling, hearing and decision-making, has, until now, mostly been the stuff of science fiction or the ...