This lovely perennial, purple loosestrife (Lythrum salicaria) grows near the pond’s edge at Charles Hammer’s home. Its Latin name derived from a practice established more than two centuries ago. In ...

This close-up shows the beautiful glossy leaves and "fuzzy" acorns of the bur oak. Credit: Garden Club of America The majestic bur oak, Quercus macrocarpa, has just been named Plant of the Year by the ...

Allozyme variation at seven putative polymorphic gene loci (Fle, Idh, Mdh-2, Mdh-3, 6 Pgd-2, Pgi-2, Pgm) was quantified in an isolated Quercus macrocarpa population in northwestern Ontario, Canada.

This study of bur oak (Quercus macrocarpa) in east-central Illinois examines some ecological consequences of the variation in seed number per acorn. The frequency of double-seeded acorns ranges from 0 ...

A study of two Quercus species investigated whether root hydraulic conductance is related to post-transplant recovery. Researchers compared root hydraulic conductance after transplanting using a ...

What is round and brown and goes thump in the night? Yep, acorns! This autumn we have an especially bountiful harvest of acorns of all sizes - where have these zillion of acorns come from? We may be ...

In 1738, the young Swedish botanist Carl Linnaeus dared to explore how the birds and the bees carry myriads of pollen grains (male) from the stamens of many flowers to the pistil (female) of another ...