The eastern mistletoe (Phoradendron serotinum) grows throughout the southeastern United States and north from New York to Ohio. Other common names include American, hairy and oak mistletoe.

I know birds spread mistletoe by excreting the seeds, but why do I see trees with no mistletoe next to trees that have been so thoroughly invaded by this parasitic plant that they almost look like ...

As the American author Washington Irving wrote around 1820, each berry on a sprig of mistletoe had come to represent a kiss that a man was allowed to bestow upon a young woman standing underneath ...