When native plants thrive, the entire ecosystem thrives, too. What to know about native plants, and how they are crucial to our ecosystems first appeared on The Cool Down.

Shrubs such as Rhus aromatica Gro-Low, a cultivar of fragrant sumac that stays under about two feet high, or even-lower red ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Susan Spradley, a volunteer for California Botanic Garden's Native Designs group, assembles a bouquet made from native foliage and ...

Discover why planting native plants in your yard, no matter how small, is crucial for supporting wildlife, pollinators, and ...

Native plants — plants that are indigenous to a particular region — do wonders for local wildlife, supporting insects, birds and other creatures with food and shelter. As gardening season ramps up ...

Attention, anyone who thinks native blooms are brilliant in the wild — or our yards — but don’t work in bouquets. Boy, are we wrong. This isn’t an invitation to trample wildflower fields to pick ...

Here are a few plants to test your knowledge. The common name for coreopsis, the state wildflower, is tickseed, due to the ...

Georgia is changing its state flower from the non-native Cherokee Rose to the native Sweetbay Magnolia, a move supported by ...