For 14 years after he left college in 1968, Mervin Wallace hunted for native flowers in Missouri. It began as a hobby, but a few decades later, it would become the way he met his wife and started the ...

From the time he was 10, Mervin Wallace knew he was a plant person. As a child, Wallace would watch his mother in the garden, and she would teach him about plants. As a young man, Wallace majored in ...

Q: What types of wildflowers are native to Missouri? A: There are a number of wildflowers native to Missouri. Each of our three vendors that are participating specialize in native wildflowers. People ...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KCTV) - Japanese Honeysuckle, Callery Pears and other non-native plants can be a nuisance in your garden, and soon they could be illegal in Missouri. Lawmakers approved a bill ...

COLUMBIA — The Missouri Prairie Foundation held a native plant sale at the MU Bradford Research Center on Saturday. Vendors sold varieties of native plants such as wildflowers, grasses, shrubs, trees ...

Native plants are having a a boom year, thanks in large part to a butterfly. The sharp decline in monarch butterfly numbers in the winter of 2014 led to headlines about the destruction of their ...

Beautify your property and benefit the environment by buying native plants Saturday at Runge Conservation Nature Center. The Grow Native! program and Runge Conservation Nature Center are holding a ...

JEFFERSON CITY — The Missouri Department of Conservation (MDC) partnered with Capitol Region Medical Center and the City of Jefferson to install native plants at the roundabout on Stadium Boulevard.

Mid-Missouri residents may soon buy native plants from the Runge Conservation Nature Center in Jefferson City. The center will host its annual sale from 10 a.m.-2 p.m. on March 23 at the center, 330 ...

In recent decades, climate change has shifted when Missouri wildflowers bloom. Once-forgotten data found in the archives of the Missouri Botanical Garden have become a springboard for scientists ...

*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. Cold stratification of echinacea seed Q: I bought some Missouri native wildflower seeds, but the packet instructions say to sow ...