This time of year, between Ellsworth and the head of the island, in clusters on roadside ditches along Route 3, a magenta ...

It's beautiful. It's purple. It flourishes in your yard. What's not to love? A lot, actually, because you should probably dig ...

A naturalised garden pond provides the perfect habitat for humans and wildlife alike to enjoy. Water features of any kind are ...

Purple loosestrife, a herbaceous perennial that is in the Lythraceae family, is a wetland invasive that prefers full sun and wet soil but is able to grow in shaded, drier conditions as well. Common ...

Purple loosestrife (Lythrum salicaria) This plant from Europe and Asia came to North America in the early 1800s on the wool of European sheep and within ships that used soil as ballast.

Aside from two waterfleas, the invasive species living in Lake Erie are very similar to those taking over the rest of the ...

The second thing Quinze did, with the help of an assistant gardener, was to transform the property’s manicured lawn into an ...

The sensitive ferns were shriveling and turning yellow, surrounded by the small orange jewelweed flowers that were wilting in the drought. All the purple flowers of swamp loosestrife had vanished, ...

Dispersal is an ecological process that involves the movement of an individual or multiple individuals away from the population in which they were born to another location, or population, where ...

A serious and growing problem in the West is the invasion of non-native plant species, commonly called noxious weeds. Noxious ...

Every bite an herbivore takes comes at the expense of a plant. Are plants passive victims or do they actively resist these attacks? Some plants avoid herbivory by decreasing their apparency or ...