CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Identifying native flowers is relatively easy — most of us won’t confuse a coneflower with a rose — but classifying native shrubs and bushes is another matter entirely. For example, ...

The northern spicebush (lindera benzoin), a small understory tree or large shrub that is bountiful and native in our region, ranges throughout the Appalachian Mountains and beyond, from Maine to ...

One of the pleasures of hiking the same trail year-round is observing seasonal changes, the emergence of spring ephemeral wildflowers, the return of migrating birds to the same places along the trail ...

At first, I suspected it was the deer that had almost completely defoliated the northern spicebush sapling I had planted just weeks earlier. Only days prior, it had been brimming with new growth, and ...