This article is republished from The Conversation, an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts. Andre A. Naranjo is Botanical Curator at Florida ...

It got cold in Florida this week. On Wednesday, some parts were colder than it was in Anchorage, Alaska. And inland freeze and frost are expected Saturday and Sunday nights in some locations. How are ...

ORLANDO, Fla. – Central Florida has its reputation of being a tropical paradise, but every few years a frost or freeze settles in, putting our tropical plants and other sensitive vegetation in harm’s ...

The News-Press and Naples Daily News recently connected with Marc S. Frank, an Extension Botanist and Assistant Collection Manager at the University of Florida's Herbarium at the Florida Museum of ...

Florida's warm weather and hospitable climate have made it attractive for humans as the population continues to grow, but people aren't the only ones proliferating: Invasive plants are on the rise, ...

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — The coldest weather of the season is moving into the Tampa Bay area on Tuesday night — which doesn't exactly come as welcome news to our tropical Florida plants. The National ...

Modern scrub mints, delicate flowering plants that grow mostly in Florida, likely result from ancient hybridization, according to a recent study I published with colleagues. Scrub mints are a clade – ...