Scientists are investigating the reasons some plants still wear last season’s tattered clothes.

Above: This photo tells an entire story. Taken at Roan Mountain State Park in Tennessee in January, it shows most of the deciduous trees are bare. However, you can easily see the light tan colors of ...

Fall landscape of a forest of beech trees and a dirt road that is covered with leaves. The road, which is barely visible under the blanket of leaves, runs from the middle foreground back into the ...

Two of my favorite spring plants, almost entirely based upon their progression from bud to leaf, are beech trees and false hellebore (a common wetland plant). I was thinking about why they are so ...

Fall landscape of a forest of beech trees with a slightly rutted dirt road and a stream running through the middle. The stream runs from the background on the right into the center foreground. The ...

Fall in Michigan typically means pumpkin-spiced lattes and canopies of autumn leaves in warm hues of yellow and orange or fiery shades of crimson. But this year, some of those trees are under attack ...

The fall colors of large woodland trees seemed a bit more muted and more sporadic compared with previous years, likely due to the drought. For example, in some woodlands, shagbark hickory leaves ...