Meet the most common botanical interlopers you're likely to find in your garden or vegetable patch, and learn how to treat each.

Q: How reliable are plant identification apps? I’ve tested several plant identification apps and have found them surprisingly, but not completely, accurate. You simply snap a photo of the plant in ...

Before we all carried computers in our pockets, the best way to identify wild plants and animals was to consult a physical field guide. Now, nature enthusiasts have easy access to a plethora of phone ...

Ordinarily, if you want to check if two plants of the same species come from genetically different populations, you have to analyze their DNA. A new study, however, has found that an analysis of the ...

Computers are gaining on our botany skills. Scientists have developed software that combines machine learning and computer vision to guess which plant family a leaf belongs to. Although it's designed ...

Fossil plants reveal the evolution of green life on Earth, but the most abundant samples that are found -- fossil leaves -- are also the most challenging to identify. A large, open-access visual leaf ...

Modern agriculture is under pressure from every angle rising labor costs, unpredictable weather, herbicide resistance, and ...

Every garden experiences pest problems. Because we want healthy plants in our beautiful gardens, learning to identify a plant pest early can mean controlling its spread. Leaf miners do not always make ...