In early June, I went with a few friends to check out some muskegs at Eaglecrest. In addition to the common round-leaf sundew, we found some long-leaf sundews already making flower buds. Both of these ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Photo credit: Maryland Department of Natural Resources- Wildlife & Heritage Service/Facebook The dwarf sundew is the smallest of ...

World Bog Day was celebrated around the world on July 23. I celebrated by hiking to an Alaskan bog, or muskeg, as they are colloquially known. This particular bog surrounded a small lake that was ...

WORCESTER COUNTY, Md. (WJZ) -- A newly discovered plant is growing right here in Maryland. Botanists recently confirmed the discovery of dwarf sundew -- also known as Drosera brevifolia -- where it ...

I’d been bent at the hip like a cartoon detective, snooping around the trail’s edges, for over an hour. Covered in streaks of my own blood, courtesy of the recently satiated mosquitoes I swatted off ...

In 1860, a year after publication of his seminal work on the origin of species, Charles Darwin wrote to a friend, “At the moment, I care more about Drosera than the origin of all the species in the ...