Bad news, I'm afraid. Water caltrop, Trapa natans, are interesting little things, hard and sharp. Shaped sort of like the horns of a bull. But of course, they come from a plant. And if you step on one ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The winners of the 2015 International Aquatic Plants Layout Contest were just recently announced. Yes, you read that correctly: a ...

Emma has a standing joke that she can never keep a houseplant alive, but I'm feeling a bit outclassed lately, as she has been cultivating things I've killed and others I've never had the nerve to try.

A persistent misconception about aquatic plants is that they are 'weeds.' With names like pondweed, pickerelweed and duckweed, it's not hard to understand why this view persists. Yet, native aquatic ...