After being pollinated, the plants form seeds within a hollow green fruiting body, shaped somewhat like a cucumber.

Collecting Wild Plants for Food, Medicine Is a Tradition for Many Minnesotans, but Laws Are Unclear State Sen. Susan Pha, DFL-Brooklyn Park, has been gathering plants like Solomon’s seal, fiddlehead ...

Close-up of raspberries and a few green leaves - Valentyn Volkov/Shutterstock You're trudging through the underbrush on a hike when you decide to take a break. As you power up with some trail mix, you ...

When I teach ecology labs at Merrimack College, one of my favorite places to take students is the Pine Hole Bog in Andover’s Charles W. Ward Reservation. While walking along the quarter-mile boardwalk ...

Scientists named 190 new plants and fungi in 2025, many already threatened. New DNA tools are speeding discovery as habitat ...

A study finds that diverse flowers sometimes increase virus spread among bees, challenging assumptions about biodiversity, ...

She will help plant countless more. This week the Wild Seed Project, a North Yarmouth organization dedicated to promoting and ...

Get involved with the New Year Plant Hunt with our friends at the Botanical Society of Britain and Ireland (BSBI). From 1st-4th January take part in this citizen science project and help wildlife at ...