Saw palmetto’s yellowish-white flowers, growing on a yard-long branch, are a spring magnet for native butterflies like the ...

Mitigation banks can’t exactly replicate pre-development ecosystems, even when they achieve state-mandated native plant goals. (Rose Schnabel/WUFT News) Growing native plants and eradicating invasive ...

Forest and wetlands in Paynes Prairie Preserve State Park, Gainesville. (Yunpeng Liu, UF/IFAS Invasion Science Research Institute) ((Yunpeng Liu, UF/IFAS Invasion Science Research Institute)) ...

Leafy green with tiny, red fruits, the Brazilian peppertree is a land manager’s enemy. Parts of the plant can be toxic to birds and cause rashes in humans, but that’s not why it raises concern. It’s ...

For 30 years, developers and conservationists fought over the flowered sand banks of Castle Hill in Lake County. As construction crews move in, a driven group of plant experts and retirees races to ...

Julie Becker digs a plant on a hill overlooking a Duke Energy substation and Mattamy Homes subdivision. CLERMONT — On quiet fall mornings, when most of Central Florida buzzes along I-4 and State Road ...

While National Arbor Day is always in April, many Floridians do not know that Florida’s Arbor Day is the third Friday in January. In 2025 that date is Friday, January 1. This early date is perfect for ...

SYDNEY, NSW - AUGUST 09: A Cane Toad is exhibited at Taronga Zoo August 9, 2005 in Sydney, Australia. The Cane Toad, which is poisonous, is reportedly being blamed for the deaths of a number of ...

Let’s talk about invasive plants. Recently, we released a post on our social media page warning of the invasion risk of mimosa trees (Albizia julibrissin), a Category 1 invasive listed by the Florida ...

Florida's non-native green iguanas become paralyzed and drop from trees when temperatures dip. Climate change could bring this problem to new areas. When you purchase through links on our site, we may ...