For more than 15 years, botanist Naomi Fraga has been trying to collect seeds from the rare Death Valley sage, for ...

A botanist collecting seeds from Death Valley sage is part of a broader federal effort to bank native plant genetics for long ...

In most forests, a visitor’s eye is trained on what can be reached. The trunk can be measured. The leaves can be plucked. A specimen can be pressed, labeled, and filed away. Yet the largest share of ...

I love walking in the woods in springtime. Flowers begin to line the trail in late February, and by the first of April, only ...

Many years ago, I was given great advice on how to take better photographs, especially of subjects like the wildflowers that I love. That advice was to get the image focused and framed well, and then ...

The next time you're sipping on a glass of something boozy, consider the plants behind your beverage. Some of them might spring immediately to mind: grapes in your wineglass, rye in your whiskey ...