One of the pleasures of hiking the same trail year-round is observing seasonal changes, the emergence of spring ephemeral wildflowers, the return of migrating birds to the same places along the trail ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Identifying native flowers is relatively easy — most of us won’t confuse a coneflower with a rose — but classifying native shrubs and bushes is another matter entirely. For example, ...

The northern spicebush (lindera benzoin), a small understory tree or large shrub that is bountiful and native in our region, ranges throughout the Appalachian Mountains and beyond, from Maine to ...

At first, I suspected it was the deer that had almost completely defoliated the northern spicebush sapling I had planted just weeks earlier. Only days prior, it had been brimming with new growth, and ...

There’s a spicebush shrub in our front yard that germinated on its own and is now almost 10 feet tall. When I see its yellow flowers in early spring, I take it as a sign that no matter how bad the ...