Sometimes you place a plant in your garden and forget all about it. That’s how it has been for me with “Aristolochia elegans,” better known as Dutchman’s pipe, pipevine or calico flower. Although I’ve ...

SAN FRANCISCO — This spring, the dramatic return of a rare, blue iridescent butterfly dazzled onlookers at the San Francisco Botanical Garden in Golden Gate Park. Neighbor John Gale, who visits the ...

(PhysOrg.com) -- Flitting among the cool slopes of the Appalachian Mountains is a tiger swallowtail butterfly species that evolved when two other species of swallowtails hybridized long ago, a rarity ...

SANTA CRUZ — There may not be butterlfy flutterbys at Pipevine Swallowtail Butterfly Day, but the colorful winged insects have caught the attention of Santa Cruz gardeners with a passion for native ...

Napa Valley has a unique plant growing along its waterways, especially along the Napa River. It is Dutchman’s pipevine (Aristolochia californica) and it is native to California. This plant, one of ...

Today, is The Green Register's third installment of photographs and excerpts from the book Butterflies of Alabama by photographer Sara Bright and nature writer Paulette Haygood Ogard. The featured ...

Butterfly gardening is a popular pastime in North Texas. In our ardor to provide sustenance, however, we may be serving up a deadly dish unwittingly. The iridescent black-and-blue pipevine swallowtail ...

Question: In a May 30, 2008 question regarding the toxicity of certain Aristolochia species to pipevine swallowtail larvae, I had heard the same from at a talk from the curator of the Cockrell ...