Melinda Laidlaw is an ecologist at the Queensland Herbarium, the oldest scientific organisation in the state, established when the colony became a state. With more than 1.6 million specimens, the ...

It’s been said that a weed is just a plant growing where you don’t want it to. Some are aggressive to the point of being invasive, while others have redeeming qualities you might want to consider ...

There are three ways to identify a wild plant: books, websites and apps. Identification depends upon looking closely at it. Does it have long thin leaves like grass? Or broader leaves like a shrub?

Summertime! While reveling in tomatoes and black-eyed Susans, many Long Islanders are painfully aware we’re also smack in the middle of weed season. Crabgrass, dandelions, lamb’s quarters and plantain ...

Farmers, home gardeners, agribusiness clientele, landscapers and other community members in the mid-Atlantic region experience issues with their crops and plants and need to know what pathogen, insect ...

The days of identifying weeds based on looks alone are behind both us and farmers. How does this AI model manage to identify ...