Above image by Smithsonian Institution on USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database. As you travel Indiana’s backroads in July and August, you can observe what we might call one of nature’s rarities – a distinct sky ...

A long time ago, while in graduate school, I presented at a Neuroscience convention in New Orleans. That was my one and only visit. Besides the wonderful music, food and science, one of the highlights ...

July brings patriotism, hot weather, hot dogs, fireworks and chicory blooming along the roadsides in Wisconsin. The pretty blue blooms are common chicory — Cichorium intybus —a plant that originated ...

QUESTION: What are those blue and white flowers that grow along the roadsides of Monroe County? ANSWER: The blue-flowered plants are chicory and the white ones are Queen Anne’s Lace. Both are putting ...