If you walk through a forest and look down, you might think you're stepping on dead leaves, twigs and soil. In reality, ...

It doesn’t shout for attention, it doesn’t bloom, and it doesn’t grow tall—but moss has been quietly thriving on this […] ...

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 ...

Trapped by ice and molded by genes, the Norwegian lemming split from its Siberian cousin just 35,000 years ago, a new study ...

Found in rock samples retrieved in Australia more than 60 years ago, the microfossils dating to the Lower Ordovician Period, approximately 480 million years ago, fill an approximately 25-million-year ...

Annual plants Annual plants are those which complete their full life cycles in one season. Most annuals are planted in spring, bloom in the summer and die in the fall.

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 ...

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.

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 ...

Plants’ Secret Root System reveals a second layer of roots that could fight climate change. Credit: Martin St-Amant / CC BY-SA 3.0 A new global study has found that plants’ root system includes a ...

Emily Tucker, owner of Plant Em on 302 E Broadway, leans against a counter in her shop on May 30, 2025, where she sells a variety of plants weekly from Friday to Sunday.