Millions of native orchids are flourishing on the site of a former iron mine in the Adirondacks, suggesting that former industrial sites – typically regarded as blighted landscapes — have untapped ...

Toss out the notion that orchids are hard to grow. In Florida, these exotics can survive almost anywhere. Orchids may flourish where you least expect them. A white-flowered Zeuxine species with ...

The delicate Florida Butterfly orchid, decimated by development and illegal collection over the past century, is about to make a comeback in Palm Beach County. Students at 12 schools have been ...

Which plant group displays the showiest, most flamboyant flowers? Sunflowers and daisies? Lilies, daffodils, and amaryllis? Or maybe the iris family? It’s fun to ponder this weighty question now, as ...

One of the neatest things about being a botanist is that there is always a surprise, right around the corner. We sometimes fall into the trap of thinking that everything around us is hum-drum and ...

Editor's note: This is part one of a two-part series looking at native orchids found in Lake County. Watch for the next part that will feature native orchid identification and more about Lake County ...

The finicky plants are threatened by habitat loss and climate change, but as the Missouri Botanical Garden works to conserve them, scientists are learning the difficulties of growing native orchids in ...

Spring is here, and it won’t get cold anymore. (Famous last words.) With spring comes a torrent of interest in gardening, and lots of money and effort are spent to this end on both small and large ...

Leaves of green stand out in a drab winter landscape, when nearly everything else is gray or brown. That’s how a cranefly orchid was discovered a few years ago at a preserved farm in Salem County.

In less than two weeks, spring will be knocking on Delaware’s door. But in the middle of winter, a handful of adventurous citizen scientists were tiptoeing through the woods to search for some of the ...