One of the pleasures of hiking the same trail year-round is observing seasonal changes, the emergence of spring ephemeral wildflowers, the return of migrating birds to the same places along the trail ...

I am an incurable forager: a fiddlehead fanatic and an unlicensed digger of quahogs, the kind of person who, at an early age, once ran away from home because my mom wouldn't let me sauté a ...

If there is one critter in the animal kingdom that stakes claim as being the master of disguise, it's the spicebush swallowtail caterpillar. And talk about having a bag of tricks up its sleeve with ...

I love waking up in the morning, stepping outside with my coffee, and greeting the little critters hanging around my porch. Even when there's only a couple frogs or a spider or two hanging around, ...

At first, I suspected it was the deer that had almost completely defoliated the northern spicebush sapling I had planted just weeks earlier. Only days prior, it had been brimming with new growth, and ...

In anticipation of the impending spring that just can’t get here soon enough and to highlight some of the trees and shrubs that will be available during the Fairfield Soil and Water Conservation ...

Spicebush gets its name because its yellow spring blooms give off a sweet, spicy fragrance. In fall, the shrub produces shiny red berries that birds love to eat. About 6 to 12 feet tall and wide when ...

Spicebush is a fairly common, multiple-stemmed shrub. It gets to be seven or eight feet tall, and it grows best, but not exclusively, in damp soil. The older stems are dotted with raised lenticels -- ...

The female spicebush swallowtail butterfly was fluttering down, landing for a moment or two on a leaf on my sassafras tree and moving on to do the same thing on other leaves over and over again. It ...

Looking for a sign of spring during the dead of winter? Look no further than Lindera benzoin, commonly called spicebush. It’s one of the first plants to bloom, producing flowers by late winter or even ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Identifying native flowers is relatively easy — most of us won’t confuse a coneflower with a rose — but classifying native shrubs and bushes is another matter entirely. For example, ...