Extinction can be hard to prove on any geographic scale. Locally, it can occur as a natural process, and can be reversed at that level. Those thoughts passed through my mind while wandering the ...

Tours of the grasslands at Fort Indiantown Gap, home to the only population of the rare Regal Fritillary butterfly in the eastern United States, are set for four days in July. To catch a glimpse ...

My 3-year-old loves the red tips of the cocoplum leaves, and also the blue flowers of plumbago, but mostly he loves that ...

This is a Diana fritillary, from Fall Creek Falls State Park in Tennessee: My thanks to Professor Goeckner and to all readers and correspondents.

The Heath Fritillary butterfly, previously on the brink of extinction, is being welcomed and preserved through the efforts of Essex and Suffolk Water in collaboration with conservation charities.

• Wild violets can be good for your lawn. Wild violets can be beneficial for your lawn and local ecosystem. The flowers ...

Q: When the weather gets warmer, you change out the plants in front of the library. You have snapdragon and pansies in there now. What warm season plant will you put in? A: I am a lazy gardener. I wil ...

A meadow in Framsden, near Stowmarket, boasts one of the county's most impressive displays of the snake's head fritillary. The flower is now a rare plant found on less than 30 sites in the UK.

Páirc Náisiúnta na Mara, Ciarraí, which will incorporate the iconic Conor Pass, will be Ireland's eighth national park.

My favorite spring wildflowers, yellow fritillary and shooting star, have bloomed in such an abundance at Lone Pine State Park, that I can’t help but marvel at the shocks of magenta and buttery yellow ...