Benjamin Smith Barton, who wrote the first American textbook on botany, taught him how to identify and press plants ... traveling up the Missouri River and across the Rocky Mountains to the ...

Native to China, the Callery pear includes 26 cultivars that present significant ecological concerns in Kansas and Missouri. Among them:· It displaces native trees and plants in the wild ...

Nestled in the southwestern corner of Missouri near the tiny town of Mindenmines, this 3,500-acre expanse of tallgrass prairie represents one of the last remaining pieces of a once-vast ecosystem that ...

The Corps scheduled meeting will be at the Shell Knob-Viola Community Building beginning at 10 a.m. Open to the public, the session was scheduled about a month ago to discuss what the Corps called ...

Native fruit trees such as persimmon, wild plum, pawpaw and chokecherries can look good and produce nourishment for humans ...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Celebrate the value of Missouri trees and forests during Arbor Days in April by planting native trees and practicing proper tree care. Missouri Arbor Day for 2025 is Friday ...

The 100-acre tree nursery at George O. White State Forest, in Licking, Missouri, serves 13,000 customers a year — in the Show ...

ST. LOUIS – Bradford pear trees, an incredibly invasive and non-native species, are back and spreading fast across Missouri. Bradford pear trees, also known as Callery pear trees, are notorious ...

Root stimulators can be added at planting and also in the spring. I am new to Missouri, but want to plant peach trees. When is the best time and what varieties do best here? Growing peaches in ...

We continue our April focus on trees with some excellent flowering options and the right places to plant them.