Matt von Konrat, Head of Botanical Collections at the Field Museum in Chicago and corresponding author of the paper, ...

Moss may look insignificant, but it can carry a hidden forensic fingerprint. Because different moss species thrive in very ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - Experts say the invasive plant ball moss has been in the Baton Rouge area for the last 20 years. It’s possible you’ve passed by it every day, but didn’t know it existed. It ...

I was just down in New York this past weekend. They are ahead of New England in terms of spring. Lots of trees and shrubs were blooming. There was green grass and dandelion-spotted lawns. In contrast, ...

On a recent walk near Echo Cove, I noticed a lovely patch of a club moss sporting dozens of erect spore-bearing “cones.” We have several types of club moss here, but the only one I recognize (so far) ...

Forget your favorite flowers, because we’re talking all about the mean green sporing machines. In this episode of Crash Course Botany, we dive into the first few branches of plants’ phylogenetic ...

On the clay slopes of ravines, clinging to the rocks in shallow streams, and deep in the cypress domes lie our native mosses. Minute green remnants from the first organisms to ever colonize land, the ...