A flower show at an environmental center sounds improbable, but it’s true. The Northwest Stream Center’s half-mile elevated boardwalk provides an introduction to the beauty of the region’s wildflowers ...

Hidden at the bottom of a steep slope in the wooded wetlands of Washington Township, 11 bright pink flowers stand defiant. The "swamp pink" blooms, currently at the height of their one-week flowering ...

Ancient angiosperm A dinosaur-era freshwater plant from Spain has just been identified as the world's oldest-known flowering plant. The plant Montsechia vidalii, described in the latest issue of the ...

Poaching and storms are threats, and environmental groups could sue the federal government for not doing enough. The Associated Press is an independent, not-for-profit news cooperative headquartered ...

Recently, I took a late summer field trip deep into a swamp. It was midmorning and the sun was already promising a broiling afternoon. Up on the high ground, it was clear as a bell, but scrambling ...

In “The Orchid Thief,” author Susan Orlean wrote of a “phantom” flower hidden deep in the swamps of Southwest Florida “so bewitching that it could seduce people to pursue it year after year and mile ...