Don't miss the big stories. Like us on Facebook. Beneath the forest canopy, or overstory, of towering trees is a second layer of vegetation known as the understory. It is composed of shrubs, saplings, ...

I was up in the mountains this past weekend and got to visit with one of my favorite trees — the striped maple (Acer pensylvanicum). I did some googling and it turns out striped maples are a lot of ...

Biologists report that striped maples not only change their sex periodically, but that they can wait until the last minute - three weeks before flowering - to do it. The switch appears to be triggered ...

Although pollen has covered cars for weeks and allergy sufferers have been sneezing, we think of sex as being the realm of animals. But plant sex can be quite interesting, especially in species that ...

Many people travel to New England in October to see the wonderful fall color in the deciduous forests. A large proportion of the color is provided by maples, including the sugar maple, red maple and ...

A striped maple tree forest. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the accuracy of news releases posted to EurekAlert! by contributing institutions or for the use of any information ...

These are male flowers, left, and female flowers on striped maple branches. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the accuracy of news releases posted to EurekAlert! by contributing ...