Plant smuggling is a huge business. They are often seen outside of their natural environment, and it’s difficult for us to imagine them as active participants in an ecosystem. Learn about what scientists call plant blindness.

Follow our love of sunflowers from the Mayans to our modern day industrial planting of over 8 million sunflowers at Fukushima.

Having thrived on earth for 360 million years, tree ferns have evolved some incredibly flexible and resilient strategies to adapt to their realities.

From forest plantations to lawns, monocultures of one specific plant are everywhere. See what you can do to combat this problem in your own backyard.

The history of medicinal plants outdates even humans, with several species of animals using plants not as nutrition, but rather as a way to fight infection and disease. See how plant medication has evolved from the Neanderthal to modern times.

A plant must use a tremendous amount of energy to create flowers, so why would it choose to do this at the coldest time of year?

Trees provide us with some much needed relief from the summer heat. See what’s happening with the biggest trees - the Coastal Redwoods. Scientists have sequenced its genome and are trying to understand a variety of factors that enable it to survive for thousands of years.

Rhizospheres are the most dynamic environment in the world. In the millimeter of soil surrounding a root, billions of bacteria, fungi, and archaea are communicating and trading nutrients.