We look for the first hints of fall in October, but it's not until late November and early December, that we really begin to see leaves change color and commence to fall. Once it starts, it seems the ...

Many plants are deciduous in autumn and winter, which means that they defoliate or die back, and then refoliate or regenerate in spring. Many others are evergreen, which simply means that they are ...

The pregnant onion, a member of the lily family, has been popular with generations of gardeners even though it bears only a modest inflorescence of small, green-and-white blossoms in summer. The ...

Vegetation plays an unexpectedly large role in cleansing the atmosphere, a new study finds. The research uses observations, gene expression studies, and computer modeling to show that deciduous plants ...

Quantitative phenology and pre-dawn xylem pressure potentials (XPP) of an evergreen shrub, Ceanothus megacarpus, and a deciduous shrub, Salvia mellifera, were compared on pairs of plants in shared ...

Journal of Vegetation Science, Vol. 28, No. 4 (July 2017), pp. 747-761 (15 pages) Questions: The understorey vegetation of temperate forests may serve as an indicator of long-term change in site ...