Editor’s note: Once a month OSU Extension Master Gardener Volunteers in Franklin County profile a plant that occurs naturally in central Ohio. Often, the common name given to a plant reflects the ...

Though often found in overlapping forest circles, and genetically born of the same flora family, these native look-alike bloomers are actually two distinct representatives of the daisy.

Most people in Florida, if asked politely, would probably not be able to tell you the name of a field botanist in their area. Now, there are quite a number of different kinds of people who study ...

It was 1959 or 1960 when Chuck asked me to dance as the band was playing the last song. I saw him at Staples yesterday. He looks like he still has all his teeth and a full head of hair, although the ...

Boneset. It sounds like a potion from the wizarding vocabulary of Harry Potter. Actually, I think that J.K. Rowling included a medicine called Skelegrow in one of her famous books. However, boneset ...

"To one whose childhood was passed in the country some fifty years ago the name and sight of this plant [white boneset] is fraught with unpleasant memories. The attic or woodshed was hung with bunches ...

Hypericum – St. John’s Wort – also occasionally called Aaron’s beard, is a genus of plants that have been used since medieval times for a wide array of folk medicines and wound dressings. It is ...

Often, the common name given to a plant reflects the benefits early healers believed the plant possessed. Such is the case for common boneset, Eupatorium perfoliatum. Common boneset always needs room ...