The best time to see this plant is in the morning, just as the sun is coming up, while you quietly paddle in the backwater end of a pond, or perhaps inside a mysterious Carolina bay. By the hundreds, ...

Plants are divided into broad categories in terms of their mode of nutrition. The first category consists of green plants which make their own food by the common process called photosynthesis. Such ...

Dew is something that has long captured the imagination of the poets: it is born from the air, appearing as magic pearls in the morning, often forming spectacular, shiny scenery when the sun hits it ...

A study of Carolina chickadees in residential properties in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area finds that in properties with more than 30% non-native plant biomass, the abundance of arthropods ...

The Venus flytrap Dionaea muscipula is the most sophisticated of the carnivorous plants. Its traps snap shut in a fraction of a second, imprisoning prey in a cage of teeth that line the edges of the ...