Monocots and dicots. Those are words most of us haven't heard since high school biology days, if we even heard them at all. But now, a walk through the spring woods will thrust a common monocot, the ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. SOPHIE THOMSON: About a quarter of all flowering plants, some 65,000 species from around the globe, are ...

Now that spring has sprung, television, newspaper and magazine ads are sprouting with all sorts of plugs for weed killers. If you have never curled up on the couch with a dry book on botany, you might ...