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 ...

Scientists have puzzled over the existence of photorespiration, a seemingly wasteful process in plants that releases carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. Now UC Davis plant scientist Arnold Bloom has ...

You might be familiar with the life cycle and how this applies to plants changing over time. It might not be something that you will explain all at once, but little by little you can share the ...

A rare Michigan flower is “living its best life” right now as other plants slumber the winter away. Yellow fumewort grows in parts of southwest Michigan. It avoids competition by completing its life ...

Whenever I wander around garden centers, I try to listen to what shoppers are saying as they select plants to take home. I learn a lot when listening to comments from gardeners about which plants they ...