Dawn redwood trees once were believed extinct. The towering trees have been quietly growing in Michigan for decades.

Today, there are 11 dawn redwoods on the Michigan Big Tree Register, a program of the Michigan Botanical Society. The ...

Trees with brilliant displays of yellow in the autumn include beech, honeylocust, poplars, birch and ginkgo trees. The red colors in leaves are created by anthocyanin, which is in a class of pigments ...

With temperatures dropping, leaves changing ... foliage ranging from red to orange to yellow can be seen throughout the Great ...

Some of the most beautiful displays of the fall season could be in the Midwest this year, especially in Michigan and Illinois ...

Autumn olive is a small, woody tree known for invading open prairies, disturbed areas, and woodland edges. It houses nitrogen fixing bacteria on its roots, allowing for rapid growth and colonization, ...

Scientists discovered that the red stigmas in wind-pollinated trees accumulate anthocyanin, the same compounds that are revealed in autumn leaves after green chlorophyll production slows down and ...

A time capsule to the dinosaur age, dawn redwoods trees are growing in Michigan. You may think of ... a tree that produces cones — with flat needle leaves that turn copper-brown in November ...