A rare Michigan flower is “living its best life” right now as other plants slumber the winter away. Yellow fumewort grows in ...

Yellow fumewort, a rare annual native to the U.S., grows in southwest Michigan and is at risk. What makes the plant unusual.

A small, slender shrub once written off as lost to history has reappeared in the red dirt of remote northern Australia, ...

Citizen science platforms, including iNaturalist, are leading to major new discoveries and are becoming crucial to the work ...

Botanists discovered a new plant species in Colombia that is already endangered, naming it Aphelandra almanegra.

Hidden in the wet, shady woods of northwest New Jersey blooms a remarkable and rare plant – Yellow Hammond’s Spring Beauty. Found nowhere else on Earth, it’s just one example of the many plants that ...

"It seemed that the world had stopped turning its gears. Nature surprises us. Finding a species that hasn't been heard of in nearly two centuries doesn't happen every day. It was an incredible moment, ...

A century of plant species discoveries in China reveals a hidden bias that could affect global plant conservation.

There's an old saying that everything in Australia wants to eat you – and this apparently includes plants, with the island a global hotbed of carnivorous species. Now, scientists have made a ...

I recently went looking for one of the rarest of Texas’s rare plants in what seemed like an odd place: near the middle of Boerne. At Cibolo Nature Center, a hundred-acre preserve adjacent to Boerne ...

MADISON, Wis. (AP) -- The state Department of Natural Resources says volunteers have discovered a rare carnivorous plant in northern Wisconsin that was last seen four decades ago but failed to find ...

Hidden in the wet, shady woods of northwest New Jersey blooms a remarkable and rare plant – Yellow Hammond’s Spring Beauty. Found nowhere else on Earth, it’s just one example of the many plants that ...