Leaves can be enjoyed for their shade, autumn colors, or taste, and the arrangement of leaves on a plant is a practical way to identify a species. However, the details of how plants control their leaf ...

Our mornings have been a little cool. The school buses are on the road. The leaves are falling from the trees. It must be October. Nope, check the date. It is still August; so, what is going on here?

Defining the characteristics of individual leaves is part of tree morphology, or the study of the physiological structure of trees. All trees have a leaf structure that can be classified as either ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. For broad-leaved trees like the holm oak, which grows in Mediterranean climates with dry summers and rainy winters, this seasonal ...

For short-lived spring wildflowers such as wood anemone (Anemone quinquefolia) and Dutchman’s breeches (Dicentra cucullaria), timing is everything. These fleeting plants, known as ephemerals, grow in ...

Britain is suffering its worst drought since the 1970s, with dry weather expected until October. Many parks and lawns are now more straw than grass, but some trees and other plants have responded in a ...

A Japanese plant species with a peculiar leaf pattern recently revealed unexpected insight into how almost all plants control their leaf arrangement. Leaves can be enjoyed for their shade, autumn ...