There are many tough and lovely native wildflowers that belong in more gardens but are overlooked and underappreciated. Many of them may even be rare or listed endangered plants, even though they are ...

In my office here at the Globe is a framed photograph of a pollinator on a purple coneflower, with a vast, grassy landscape stretching behind it. Bequeathed to me by the late Carol Stark, former ...

This week and next could be your last chance this year to see a proliferation of pale purple coneflowers in northern Illinois natural areas. But wait, purple coneflowers bloom in July and August, ...

The Kasota Prairie now has a whopping new cousin. Thousands of years old and preserved from mining by a group of area environmentalists in the 1980s, the Kasota Prairie is just southeast of Gustavus ...

Prairie coneflower is a native wild flower which blooms in late summer and adds an early splash of yellow to the landscape. It can grow to a height of 24 inches and its familiar drooping yellow petals ...

Last spring, I was excited to see a report from Dave Nolin about his discovery of a rare fern. Nolin is a former administrator for Dayton’s Five Rivers MetroParks and a consummate naturalist. He is ...

As fires continue to rage across Australia, destroying ecosystems and killing millions of animals, it’s hard to imagine any good emerging from such devastation. But it has long been known that some ...