Summer marks the blooming season for NC’s most ferocious native plant: the Venus flytrap. But their survival depends on more than just sunshine. WFDD visited the Green Swamp Preserve to learn more.

Nine million years ago, in the shadow of the rising Andes Mountains, a key ancestor of the beloved modern-day potato was born ...

A chance encounter between a wild tomato and a potato-like plant 9 million years ago is why we have modern-day potatoes, ...

Aside from being one of the largest flowers in the world, Amorphophallus titanum, or corpse flower, is most renowned for its not-so-pleasant smell. Every plant is different. Corpse flowers have been ...

Those ravenous Monarch caterpillars that were munching their way through South Texas milkweed this past spring completed ...

Huang Sanwen, who led the study, explained that the potato's origin had long puzzled scientists. In appearance, modern potato plants are almost identical to a potato-like species called Etuberosum, ...

The Mecosta Conservation District will be hosting a series of informative and community support events in the coming weeks ...

A new state law aims to halt the sale of some of Missouri’s most notorious invasive plant species.

Stringent tailpipe emissions and mileage rules were part of the Biden administration’s pledge to clean up the nation’s ...