Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ghost pipe springs from forest leaf litter. By mid-to-late summer, woodlands are cloaked in deep shade, root zone temperatures are ...

Editor's note: The ghost pipe is rare in California, and the National Park Service discourages visitors from touching or picking the plant for any reason. “Is that it?” my friend Jonah asks, pointing ...

The woods of midsummer are dark and shady. The canopy overhead is solid with green leaves, and this thickness serves as a shield to stop sunlight from reaching the forest floor. Here, out of the light ...

I was recently in a large southern Ohio forest, casting about for various interesting summer plants. The temperature was about 85 degrees Fahrenheit with high humidity — seasonally apropos. Those two ...