Rise6221, understood it best when they let their garden grow wild with weeds and unknown plants. The gardener’s eye caught ...

Often growing in rocky ground with acidic soil in the wild, this species doesn’t go summer-dormant the way the popular ...

Vanilla flavoring is widely used in food, pharmaceuticals, and cosmetics. The primary source, Vanilla planifolia, however, is ...

Most of the time I work hard to achieve a desirable outcome in my landscape but, from time to time, a plant comes along that is easy to establish and ...

Polyploidy, or whole-genome duplication (WGD), is a major mechanism of genome evolution across the tree of life and is ...

Heather Walsh started a business called Rooted Connections to share her knowledge and passion for wild food and medicine.

The vanilla species grown for its flavoring is finicky. Genes from its wild relatives could help make it hardier — but not if those cousins go extinct.

Maine’s only native lupine species, the sundial lupine ( Lupinus perennis ), once supported native pollinators such as the ...