There are millions of plants on our planet, and inevitably, species from the same family end up looking alike. Wild plants aren't pre-labeled like produce found in a grocery store, and identifying ...

Kitchen gardening seems more popular than ever, and with more people adding edibles there is a greater risk of accidentally eating poisonous plants. For instance, I grow pokeweed (Phytolacca americana ...

Ohio is home to about 1,800 native plants, and some of them get more love than others. The state wildflower, large-flowered trillium, is a spectacular sign of spring, and it's oohed and aahed over.

One day last week before I could leave with my car I had to clean a purplish wash off its front window. Right now it’s not uncommon to find this stain at many places because there are lots of pokeweed ...

Pokeweed, or inkberry if you prefer, emerges in the spring as a clump of large pale green, pointed oval leaves, each about eight inches long. If you try to pull it up, it almost always breaks off, ...

A British horticulturist startled me last year by proclaiming it to be among the world’s most beautiful plants, especially in the autumn. A friend down South wrote about suddenly seeing something ...

Claim to fame: This common Ozarks plant gained national recognition thanks to Tony Joe White’s 1969 top-10 song “Poke Salad Annie.” Long before pokeweed became a topic of song lyrics, young leaves and ...

A British horticulturist last year proclaimed it to be among the world`s most beautiful plants, especially in the autumn. A woman in the South wrote a letter about suddenly seeing something gleaming ...