The classic and trusted book “Fifty Common Trees of Indiana” by T.E. Shaw was published in 1956 as a user-friendly guide to local species. Nearly 70 years later, the publication has been updated ...

Two of my favorite spring plants, almost entirely based upon their progression from bud to leaf, are beech trees and false hellebore (a common wetland plant). I was thinking about why they are so ...

Each summer, like clockwork, millions of beech trees throughout Europe sync up, tuning their reproductive physiology to one another. Within a matter of days, the trees produce all the seeds they’ll ...