The delicate blossoms of woodland wildflowers are often the first splashes of color after our mild winters in Tallahassee. Woodland wildflowers, some known as spring ephemerals, thrive on the floor of ...

UCSC researchers collected scent compounds from woodland star flowers at field sites across the western United States. (Photo by Magne Friberg) Greya politella Two closely related moth species ( above ...

You can bring a taste of the forest to your garden by planting a few of the wildflowers that bloom in spring in our native woods. Many woodland plants flower in early spring to take advantage of the ...

Hepatica doesn’t display the earliest flowers that bloom each year. Those of bitter cress, henbit, purple dead nettle, bird’s-eye speedwell, and others appear in open moist sunny spots by late January ...

Spring is a few weeks away and with it comes an array of wildflowers so sweet that our winter blues melt away. We look forward to a rainbow of hues bursting from the ground, a magical show that the ...

Nothing raises the spirits like the first wildflowers of spring in the woods. “It’s always a treat to see those first little blooms,” said Sharon Yiesla, plant knowledge specialist at The Morton ...

Contrary to the title, I won't be dissecting any animals for this story. Instead, I want visit the early blooming flowers that decorate the forest floor. Four years ago, I wrote about three of these ...

New blossoms will soon be popping up around trails in Vermont, reaching for the sun and welcoming the new season along with the spring hikers trekking by. Many of these spring woodland flowers sprout ...