It's a flower so rare that when one was given away, it made headlines. But is there a chance you could grow it at home?

PORTLAND, Ore.— The Center for Biological Diversity petitioned the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today to protect a rare flower called the Willamette phlox under the Endangered Species Act. This ...

As gardeners, we know that plants hold immeasurable value, from intrinsic beauty to life-saving medicine. Yet an alarming number of plants have gone extinct, and one in five existing plants is in ...

Botanists rediscovered a rare plant, the caper-fruited tropidocarpum, unseen since 1957, in the Vasco Hills Regional Preserve ...

Scientists found Amorpha georgiana, or the Georgia false indigo, at soon-to-be county park Independence Farm in Florence ...

Molly Parren was tracking a wood turtle in Vermont when she smelled something surprising, yet familiar. The amphibian scientist for the state’s wildlife agency traced the smell to a rare wild garlic ...

ATLANTA— The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today issued a final rule to protect the Ocmulgee skullcap as endangered under the Endangered Species Act. The Service also designated 6,661 acres of ...

Protection is being sought for a rare flower that has bloomed in the Northwest since the ice age floods. Many of the remaining plants are found within miles of the Tri-Cities. Much of what remains of ...

Researchers at Penn State studying declining populations of sundial lupines in the eastern part of the United States are ...

In the forests and on remote offshore islands of Taiwan, a group of conservationists are racing to collect as many rare plant species as they can before they are lost to climate change and human ...

Middlemist's Red camellia growing in a garden - Pridannikov/Getty Images Camellia japonica 'Middlemist's Red' is one of the rarest flowering plants in the world. It was first collected from China in ...