One such massive, noxious weed may be growing in your yard, waiting to burn you if you try to remove it too quickly. Heracleum mantegazzianum, better known as giant hogweed, has been present in the ...

Oregon botanist Suzie Savoie uses wildflowers to transform home gardens into water-wise, fire-resistant pollinator havens.

Beatriz Swanson can remember the first time she saw the blinking glow. She was 10 years old, growing up in Mexico, when two ...

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.