My friend Clayton Webster, the “trail boss” for a hiking group at Oak Grove United Methodist Church in Decatur, always sends me glowing reports of his group’s treks into Georgia’s wilds. Last week’s ...

The pink lady’s slipper (New Hampshire’s state wildflower) is one of the few woodland wildflowers that almost everyone has heard of and gets very excited about seeing. They are blooming right now in ...

One of the many great things about summer in the Northland -- and certainly among the most colorful -- is the emergence of the showy lady’s slipper, Minnesota’s state flower. Also known by some as ...

I’ll never forget my first encounter with lady’s-slippers. While hiking the Long Trail in southern Vermont one June, we camped near a remote pond. Our tent site beneath an evergreen canopy was ...

Irises are in bloom as I walk by the pond. They have just begun to show their blue colors to this wetland. As I enter the woods, I note small trees and bushes flowering along the trail. In the woods’ ...

Big South Fork Park rangers are asking for help to find a culprit after someone dug up and stole dozens of beautiful pink lady's slipper wildflowers within the park. According the the National Park ...

I ll never forget my first encounter with lady s-slippers. While hiking the Long Trail in southern Vermont one June, we camped near a remote pond. Our tent site beneath an evergreen canopy was ...

Flowering plants seem to have it easy when it comes to reproduction … make a flower and wait for some wind or a pollinator to transfer pollen from one flower to another. No courtship rituals, no ...