Cattails (Typha latifolia) are the iconic freshwater wetland plant; where there is freshwater and some sun, there will be cattails. I think cattails are beautiful throughout the year, but right ...

A plant that warrants cultivating just for its cool name is tiger grass (Thysanolaena latifolia — formerly T. maxima). The species, incidentally, isn’t striped, nor does it flaunt orange ...

I recall how exhilarated I felt, as spring was changing to summer in the mid-1950s, when I first became aware of those spectacular red buds on the mountain laurel (Kalmia latifolia) plant outside ...

Plants are sessile organisms ... the movement of genes in a stable metapopulation of the white campion Silene latifolia within its native range. This short-lived perennial plant is dioecious ...

I spent too much time this past weekend trying to get a great action shot of the red-winged blackbirds at my neighbor’s pond. You know how sometimes you can’t see the forest for the trees?