In recent decades, climate change has shifted when Missouri wildflowers bloom. Once-forgotten data found in the archives of the Missouri Botanical Garden have become a springboard for scientists ...

Q: What types of wildflowers are native to Missouri? A: There are a number of wildflowers native to Missouri. Each of our three vendors that are participating specialize in native wildflowers. People ...

Missouri Wildflowers, sixth edition, 296 pages, $14. By Edgar Denison. What • A book on Missouri wildflowers so when you’re out in nature, you have an idea what you’re seeing. How much • $14 Where to ...

*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. Cold stratification of echinacea seed Q: I bought some Missouri native wildflower seeds, but the packet instructions say to sow ...

From the time he was 10, Mervin Wallace knew he was a plant person. As a child, Wallace would watch his mother in the garden, and she would teach him about plants. As a young man, Wallace majored in ...

Wildflowers bloom along Missouri’s highways in an endless natural roadside bouquet, so reliably prolific that it is easy to take them for granted. As summer heats up, chicory, Queen Anne’s lace, black ...

One of the best-used books in my home library is a 1973, second edition of the Missouri Department of Conservation's Missouri Wildflowers. The heavy-covered paperback is looking a bit dilapidated — ...

Shahla Farzan: This is Scientific American’s 60-Second Science. I’m Shahla Farzan. Many plants and animals use temperature and other environmental cues like a calendar—letting them know when it’s time ...

Native plants are having a a boom year, thanks in large part to a butterfly. The sharp decline in monarch butterfly numbers in the winter of 2014 led to headlines about the destruction of their ...

Visitors at the Runge Conservation Nature Center in Jefferson City spent Saturday afternoon embroidering a classic Missouri wildflower: the black-eyed Susan. "There's nine different subspecies of it, ...

COLUMBIA — The Missouri Prairie Foundation held a native plant sale at the MU Bradford Research Center on Saturday. Vendors sold varieties of native plants such as wildflowers, grasses, shrubs, trees ...

A native plant sale is scheduled for next week, but residents need to submit orders now in order to participate. Missouri Prairie Foundation and Watershed Committee of the Ozarks will hold the ...