If you come in contact with giant hogweed sap, Supervising Park Ranger Chuck Bartlett of Erie County, New York, recommends ...

Biodiversity is in rapid decline, across the UK and globally. Butterflies are excellent for helping us understand these ...

Hogweed is often found in moist areas, like along streams and rivers, where there is also shade. The massive plant is capable ...

LaSalle Canyon in Starved Rock State Park near Oglesby, Illinois, is the kind of place that makes you question whether you’re still in the Prairie State or if you’ve somehow teleported to some ...

The Illinois River and Kalmiopsis Wilderness can feel like a gigantic place — the mountains and canyons seem to swallow you whole — but it's the small things, a wildflower no bigger than the tip of a ...

Do you think you could tell the difference between a native species and a nonnative or invasive species? One plant you might ...

Purple firespike is a flowering shrub that boasts dramatic tubular purple flowers ideal for drawing hummingbirds and ...

PEORIA — Allie Goudy, a master gardener with a special interest in native wildflowers, was not pleased to see a lot more non-native invasive plants growing along the road near her Fulton County ...

GENEVA, Ill. — The Illinois treasurer’s office returned a Purple Heart Thursday to the grandson of a WWII Battle of the Bulge veteran. Private First-Class Edward Gorski Jr., a Chicago native,… ...

The Illinois treasurer's office returned a Purple Heart Thursday to the grandson of a WWII Battle of the Bulge veteran.