Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Thick vegetation along the banks of the Kankakee river, the natural habitat of the Kankakee mallow - Ellie Pena/Shutterstock ...

Back in the summer of 2014, a botanist named Rachel Goad was on a canoe trip to see a very rare flower. One of the rarest on the continent, actually. It’s called the Kankakee mallow, and it’s native ...

It is all but unimaginable, given the current contentiousness in Springfield, that our elected state officials might be able to agree on anything but to be disagreeable. But there is hope of ...

You might call Lillie Gilbert the Johnny Appleseed of seashore mallows in Coastal Virginia. Gilbert was excited to discover the dainty pink flowers blooming 30 years ago in the salt marsh in front of ...

Hidden in the heart of Illinois is a stunning, lesser-known flower that was recently saved from the very brink of extinction. With delicate, bluish-pink, hollyhock-like petals that become white closer ...