Technically speaking, the aster family is a botanical crazy quilt of composite bloomers (plants whose inflorescences contain ...

Native plants are not always best ... Texas sage plants from Southwest Texas freeze in North Central Texas. Many types of yuccas get too much rain here. Our soils are too alkaline for bald ...

Eastern bluebirds, harriers, egrets, terns and plovers flock to Hagerman National Wildlife Refuge in Sherman along the ...

"It's a very pleasant beverage to drink, and it hits all the right notes as a caffeinated beverage," one expert says. Unlike ...

Renowned for colorful flowers that often have detailed markings, irises are some of the most popular cottage garden plants.

Long before Earl Grey, Darjeeling and oolong reached our shores, there was yaupon. Tea brewed from the leaves of the yaupon holly has been part of the North American diet for more than 1,000 years, ...

In Hawai‘i, people, pigs, and ecosystems only have so much room to coexist, and the pigs exist a little too much.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration projects that by 2100, seas will rise 1.5 feet to 7 feet (.5 to 2 meters) in parts of the Florida Keys. The threat is greatest to low lying islands ...

Martin reached out to our offices about acquiring material from our native ... North Carolina Wilmington for his guidance in curating the plant material. Mercer Botanical Center in Spring, Texas ...

With silver-green foliage and dazzling purple-pink blooms, Texas sage is a shrub that demands attention. This North American plant is known as the 'State Native Shrub of Texas', seen growing in front ...

Prior to her political career, Tovo received a Ph.D from the University of Texas at Austin and a B.A. from the University of North Carolina ... Llanes Pulido is a native Austinite who started ...