The small lot in Missoula's Northside neighborhood teems with dozens of flowering plants that support pollinating insects, like bees and butterflies, of which Montana has hundreds of species. Almost ...

The genus Castilleja, known as paintbrushes or Indian paintbrushes, is a large group with many species in Montana. The genus is named for the Spanish botanist Domingo Castillejo. Paintbrushes belong ...

MISSOULA, Mont. — Montana Tech’s Native Plant Program is inviting the public to take part in a community planting on Sunday, Sept. 28, from noon to 4:30 p.m. The event will be held at Buffalo Street ...

DONNA HEALY Of The Gazette Staff Apr 11, 2009 Apr 11, 2009 0 In what was once an asphalt parking lot on Billings' South Side, a wildflower with a faintly chocolate fragrance blooms in midsummer. The ...

When he sent the Corps of Discovery on their journey, one of Thomas Jefferson's goals was the search and documentation of the West's treasure trove of plant life. In the course of the expedition, ...

Almost 200 years have passed since Meriwether Lewis collected Gaillardia aristata, a brightly colored native wildflower that also is a favorite garden plant. Perhaps you were lucky enough to see the ...

As you no doubt noticed, many of our native plants have yellow flowers. However, a bit of variety can be pleasing to the eye. Introducing white flowering plants into your color scheme can add variety, ...

Welcome to the Garden Palette — Eugene Weekly’s new monthly gardening column! When my husband Ted and I first landed in Eugene many years ago, I became enamored with Rachel Foster’s monthly gardening ...

While October might have you scrambling to figure out how to keep mums alive in your fall garden, it's also an important time to consider what to plant for more color and pollinators come springtime.

The suburban yard of Drake White’s San Antonio home doesn’t have what most yards have—grass. Instead, there are violet pillars of bluebonnets, pillowy white flowers blooming on jimsonweed, and ...

American witch-hazel, also called common witch-hazel, is a native plant in our area that surprises us by blooming in late fall into December. Yellow witch-hazel flowers are often spotted out in the ...