Summer means spending as much time as possible outdoors. Whether you have a postage-stamp yard in the city or acreage out in the country, knowing which plants and animals share your world can be a ...
There are so many exciting iPhone tricks to discover once you start getting comfortable with Apple's handset. And most of them are built into the operating system, so you don't have to download an app ...
Not surprisingly in this day and age, you don’t need a PhD to identify plants and animals out in the natural world. All you need is a smartphone and an app. One of the best known and most downloaded ...
A group of Colorado State University faculty and Extension specialists have created a free shrub and tree identification mobile app called CO Woody Plants. With the launch of the app, Colorado’s ...
Plant- and tree-identifying apps can help you avoid stepping in some poison ivy by telling you that it’s just a blackberry bramble. Apps like iNaturalist, LeafSnap, PictureThis® and PlantSnap are ...
You're in your garden and notice a beautiful, new-to-you flower that has popped up somewhere unexpected — pull it or leave it? Or perhaps an unfamiliar garden pest has ravaged your tomato plants. Or ...
"The plant world is enormous, and some corners of it have not yet been discovered, but a great many plants have been identified by botanists, taxonomists or particularly knowledgeable plant collectors ...
Early last week, a friend visiting my apartment for the first time was fascinated by a few of the plants on my windowsill. He’s generally quite knowledgeable about flora and fauna, but he couldn’t ...
Two invasive trees and seven invasive shrubs in Michigan. Images and credits can be found here: https://www.michigan.gov/invasives/id-report/plants (State of Michigan ...