Editor's note: This story was originally published on April 24, 2018. We are bringing it back for the first day of spring. If you look closely at Texas roadsides during wildflower season, you'll ...

Chicory is late summer's pride and joy and nature's gift of blue. In case you were wondering the name of that stunning violet blue wildflower adorning back roads, fields and hedgerows, it's chicory, ...

On a Sunday walk I spotted a splash of blue. Blue wildflowers. They say blue flowers are sometimes difficult to grow in gardens. “They say.” That was Dad’s go-to validation when he shared news back ...

The height of the summer wildflowering season is just about upon us. By mid- to late July an array of distinctive Southern Appalachian plants will come into full bloom. The Native Plant Conference at ...

What’s your favorite color? My favorite color has always been green. I guess it figures, given my life-long interest in plants. But, if you ask me what my favorite color of flower is, I would say blue ...

For many naturalists and field biologists, it was one particular bird, butterfly, plant, or other organism that revealed a different way of seeing the world and led to a lifelong interest in nature.