This spring beauty has some very peculiear adaptations and some really lovely common names. Pointy-headed taxonomists call common names “trivial names.” Some don’t strike me as trivial in the least.

It is spring in the mountains, for I have seen my first trillium. These elegant woodland flowers are called trilliums because they have just three lovely petals. They are also known as “wake robin” ...

According to a recent report, many of these ‘charismatic’ wildflowers are threatened with extinction. Here’s what you can do to help. By Margaret Roach That good things come in threes was a lesson I ...