By Kevin Pride. The larvae feed gregariously on native flowering perennials before becoming fluttering black beauties. It was just last month when zexmenia was having...
By Kevin Pride. This slow-growing plant group goes dormant and retreats underground every winter and in very hot and dry summers — and sometimes even...
By Kevin Pride. Thanks to Mother Nature’s generosity, trees, shrubs, vines and grass are flush with foliage. Literally all of them. Not exactly the most...
By Kevin Pride, SAWS Conservation Field Investigator. Though it’s less common than winter dormancy, some plants — like pink evening primrose — snooze over summer...
