Native Plants
- Good For Your Lawn, Bad For Native Flora
- "The practical implications of our findings are that the more herbivores there are in an area, the more likely it will be that infected tall fescue grass will spread and suppress native plants."
- Maybe The Plant Doesn't Want To Be Seen
- "The dried bracts on a rare woodland plant, Monotropsis odorata, might serve a similar purpose as the stripes on a tiger or the grey coloration of the wings of the peppered moth, namely to hide."
- Carniverous Plants Evolve For Bigger Meals
- "…the advantage of being able to catch and digest larger insects may have driven the evolution of the snap traps' many specializations, including sensitive trigger hairs on the inside surface of each leaf and the ability to respond quickly to a potential meal — a Venus flytrap can snap a leaf shut in a fraction of a second."
- Making Hard Choices
- "No one's certain how the meadows formed, and the encroachment is a natural succession… But the Forest Service believes the meadows have both scenic and botanic value, and the only way to keep them open is to beat back the advancing trees."
- Secrets Of Maples' Flight Revealed
- "A heavy body and lone, stubby wing seem unlikely features for an object trying to fly — but they help the seeds of maple trees travel thousands of meters from a parent tree."
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