A garden full of flowers straining towards the sunlight is a harbinger of summer, a signal of the end of winter's short days. There's one variety of early spring bloomers with colorful petals forming ...

The first time I saw Lewisia rediviva, common name of bitterroot, I was convinced I was hallucinating. I was working as a seasonal botanist in the shrub steppe, it was late May, and I was on the top ...