Here are seven medicinal plant species that have proved their worth in gold and may well have more to give to the future of medicine.

Hiking columnist Susan Anderson tells about a treasure hunt she went on last spring to see a rare plant with stinky flowers.

Goetze: Most native trees of the Northcentral Texas and Southwestern Oklahoma area shed their leaves during fall and winter, ...

You may be familiar with its name from the bottle of astringent found in your home medicine cabinet or for sale on pharmacy ...

Survival in Wild West Wyoming depended on treating illnesses without the help of modern medicine. Whiskey figured in a lot of ...

Researchers from U.C. Riverside announced in January they found an entirely new species of California manzanita. Its bark is ...

A young child uses colored pencils to fill in different plant medicines on an art sheet from artist Kitana Connelly’s new ...

Peyote cactus or Lophophora williamsii according to the locals, this unique food is both the sacred and ancestral medicine ...

There’s no place like the tallgrass prairie of Kansas and Oklahoma, and a Kansas State University researcher is working to ...

Occasionally we need to be reminded that before pharmacies, cultures had to rely on native plants and animals as sources of medicine ... Plants used medicinally by the Lakota and other Native American ...