Why it's incredible: Kilimanjaro hosts huge, endemic plants called giant groundsels. On the middle-altitude slopes of Mount Kilimanjaro grows a strange plant not found anywhere else on Earth. The ...

A place unique to Tucson held a sale over the weekend featuring unique plants. The Tucson Botanical Gardens, at 2150 N. Alvernon Way, attracted green-thumbed folks from all over the area interested in ...

We often take plants for granted, but the trees and flowers around us have all kinds of unusual qualities—from those that grow in our backyards and parks to more exotic ones on riverbanks and in ...

Until now, ecologists missed the signal because they focused on plant-to-plant distances. At that scale, drylands look ...

Look at this guy -- all dressed up and nowhere to go. It's kind of charming and kind of dorky. Hey, buddy! Wrong season! He'll learn. No pollinators around, no promise of summer, colder weather coming ...

Here s a welcome "heads up." Things are looking up in the woodlands. The U.S. economy, its environment and international relations are as sour as lemon rinds, but a sweet little flower blooms in the ...

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