Millions of native orchids are flourishing on the site of a former iron mine in the Adirondacks, suggesting that former industrial sites – typically regarded as blighted landscapes — have untapped ...

The finicky plants are threatened by habitat loss and climate change, but as the Missouri Botanical Garden works to conserve them, scientists are learning the difficulties of growing native orchids in ...

The delicate Florida Butterfly orchid, decimated by development and illegal collection over the past century, is about to make a comeback in Palm Beach County. Students at 12 schools have been ...

Which plant group displays the showiest, most flamboyant flowers? Sunflowers and daisies? Lilies, daffodils, and amaryllis? Or maybe the iris family? It’s fun to ponder this weighty question now, as ...

If you’re looking for something to pin on a prom date, or give mom for Mother’s Day, just move along. This is not a story about THOSE kind of orchids. This is about native orchids, tiny botanical ...

If you step into the atrium of the Fuqua Orchid Center during the Atlanta Botanical Garden’s annual Orchid Daze exhibition (open now through April 14), you’ll be inundated with a jaw-dropping array of ...

Leaves of green stand out in a drab winter landscape, when nearly everything else is gray or brown. That’s how a cranefly orchid was discovered a few years ago at a preserved farm in Salem County.

CHANHASSEN, Minn. — The Arboretum’s Plant Conservation Program aims to promote the conservation of rare and native plant species in Minnesota. David Remucal and a team of staff and volunteers work to ...