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Native Americans used the staple for many foods for thousands of years, and it is now recognized as the state grass in Nevada and Utah.

It’s complicated; shaggy parasols can be eaten by some people, not all, but only after cooking. I advise against taking a risk.

My hope for this expedition to the San Rafael Swell was to find flowers on scarlet monkeyflower, which grows in hanging gardens on vertical walls.

Pink spring beauties are ephemerals that sustained the earliest Americans, and selection pressure may hold the clue to color variation.

Native Americans have been associated with bison in North America for more than 15,000 years.

That potent aroma prized by humans serves many functions for the plant.

Mormons used the plant to make a caffeine-free hot drink, and Native Americans used it to relieve congestion.

Aspen boletes build physical connections for mutualistic exchanges with quaking aspen.

The common wood nymph tastes with its feet and hears with its wings.

The beautiful male emerged in October, eager to mate but destined for disappointment because he emerged too late in the season, just an example of natural selection at work I received an invitation to photograph a black swallowtail butterfly that had just emerged. It would linger only a short while...