The plants are legally protected under New Brunswick's Species At Risk Act and cannot be harmed. How to spot a Furbish's lousewort Toward the middle of summer, mature plants produce one or more ...

Expulsion from the Boy Scouts of America is a dishonor few Scouts endure. But that was the punishment imposed on Kim Kuska, a self-taught naturalist and former biology teacher who had been with ...

Furbish's lousewort is only found in northern Maine and western New Brunswick, Canada. This month the US Fish and Wildlife removed the plant from the federal endangered species list. Credit ...

What do turkey corn, swamp lousewort, American skunk cabbage, and sneezeweed (gesundheit) have in common? Besides having quirky names, they’re all plants native to the U.S. Let’s explore what ...

Kuska, 60, has been helping the Native Plant Society study the plant with its delicate white and purple flowers since the 1970s, when he served as the Scouts’ nature director at Pico Blanco. In May ...

Her watercolor drawings are in the Bowdoin College library and Harvard University’s Gray Herbarium contains about 4000 of her plant collections. Furbish lousewort remained largely forgotten ...

Learning about plants can often be a lesson in history. As described by H. Wayne Phillips in his book, "Plants of the Lewis & Clark Expedition," it was the Lewis ...

PORTLAND, Maine— The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced today that an endangered flower in Maine is recovering under the Endangered Species Act and has been downlisted to threatened status.

"Lousewort," pedicularis canadensis, is a woodland herb that can be found in shaded forests, often along damp, mossy creek banks in rocky woods.It likes places in the mountain and piedmont ...

The plant biologist is lining up a weekend-long wildflower identification course in Hinton. That means that soon you will be able to tell the difference between a Woolly Lousewort and a Western ...