Pavlov's conditioning experiments with dogs are one of the most well-known studies in scientific history, and now research from the University of Western Australia (UWA) has shown that plants can ...

In a first global plant conservation assessment, a multi-institutional research team used the power of open-access databases and machine learning to predict the conservation status of more than ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... You say klem-AT-is. I say KLEM-a-tis. Some say Latin is a dead language. But in the realm of horticulture, it’s not just alive, but kicking. Taxonomy, the ...

There are always lots of things to learn as a gardener, and many of them can only be learned through doing—through actually getting out there and getting your hands dirty. But there are some things ...

Here in New England winter is long, especially for gardeners. We want to be outside in the garden but most days we can’t really do much. I compensate by learning about gardening from books. I recently ...

The huge aster family (Asteraceae) is recognized by the daisy-shape of the flowers. It includes sunflowers, asters, daisies and dandelions. (Benjamin Brink/2009) Learning to recognize 400,000 species ...

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books. Yet we often aren’t able to figure out what the heck the blasted plants are called. Field botany has to be the most difficult of all the natural sciences. That’s why Vic and I attended a ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - A study out of Harvard and Purdue universities is starting to unravel the genetic mechanisms that allow some plants to duplicate their entire genomes and continue to reproduce.

Plants are classified as annuals, biennials or perennials based on their life cycles. Biennials, like foxglove, have a vegetative year followed by a flowering year. Perennials, including woody shrubs ...