The plant is identified by its large, star-shaped leaves and spiny seed pods. If you are unsure about the safety of a plant, ...

Hunger can start to make anything look like food. And when the nasty wild plants look appetizing, getting caught in the wilds without food becomes an even more dangerous scenario. Some of the most ...

As the plants grow taller, the leaves grow larger. Sunflowers attract bees with their pollen, then birds and small mammals with their seeds. USDA Growing Zones : 3 to 8 ...

Tepeztate (Agave marmorata), with large flowering inflorescence and unusual twisting leaves, are easy to spot on the rocky hillsides and cliffs on which they grow.

May through September the mystical blue and gold of the Lake Michigan coastline in northern Michigan provides a cook’s dream of ingredients — just for the picking. Along with morel ...

Like the garden plant, wild strawberry is a low-slung plant that ... The strongly serrated leaves range from one inch long when young to five or six inches in older plants. Skip these large leaves.

It is "the first known case of active wound treatment in a wild animal with a medical plant," biologist Isabelle Laumer told NPR. She says the orangutan, called Rakus, is now thriving.

There are never more than 10 different species growing in any area. And though similar leaf shapes exist among the scores of passionflower species, none of those then species will have similar leaves.

But larger seeds would not have been inevitable – there are many plants which are large when mature, but grow from small seeds. We gathered together seed size data for lots of modern crops and ...

If using the large wild nettles, take only the top 2 inches or the 4-leaf rosette. For the small, farm variety, use the top rosette and all of the bottom leaves (strip them off the stem).