Plants

Start your transformative journey of creating sustainable plantscapes that embrace native, non-invasive, pro-pollinator plant species.

From tiny seeds come big results: replanting seagrass meadows that help fish, protect coastlines, and absorb climate-heating carbon dioxide.

Scientists also declared several other extinctions, including the first documented plant extinction in New Hampshire.

Climate change, drought, and fires — all caused or worsened by human activity — are rewriting the future of ancient Sonoran saguaros.

Our latest group of reviews showcases books that remind us about what we’re saving — and why we do it.

These beautiful ecosystems recently began to recover from overexploitation. Will Russia’s invasion once again push them over the brink?

Our culture has moved away from a fascination with the greenery around us. Experts warn that “plant blindness” could come with a cost.

As funding drops and institutions change, the study of plants appears to be withering on the vine. That’s letting critical skills go extinct.

A single Franciscan manzanita plant nicknamed Francie, the last of its kind from the wild, charts an unlikely comeback in San Francisco.

One species she discovered, a critically endangered plant, eluded modern researchers for decades but has recently been rediscovered — as has Barber herself.