By Sean During the summer of 2014, I went on a school trip to Costa Rica, a tropical paradise with an extremely diverse assortment of...

by Matt Drescher There are two types of plants. There’s plants, and then there’s Plants. “plants” (small p) are like trees (small t)....

by Alison Singer What first caught my eye was the tightly wound green bundle atop the stem. They looked like closed umbrellas. “What are...

by Kathleen Carroll I spent the first 17 years of my life exploring the Sonoran Desert, the land of towering saguaro cacti and...

by Lucy Zipf Black needlerush (Juncus roemerianus) is the dominant plant species in the wide, flat marshes that surround the Pamlico...