A few ledges along the Connecticut River are home to a rare plant commonly known as Jesup’s milk-vetch (Astragalus robbinsii var. jesupii). In fact, this species, which has been listed as federally ...

With the 101 Freeway roaring below them, Robert Rock, right, landscape architect for the Wallis Annenberg Wildlife Crossing, examines a batch of native Santa Barbara milk vetch plants growing on the ...

LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- Conservationists are raising a stink over an endangered plant habitat that the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power has bulldozed. Patches of the Braunton milk vetch with ...

One of the rarest plants in New England is also one of the hardest to see, even if you know where to find it. That’s because it takes a bit of paddling on the Connecticut River to find each of the ...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) announced recently that it has approved a revised recovery plan for the sentry milk-vetch, an endangered plant found only on the South Rim and the North Rim ...

The Mojave Desert is often portrayed as empty space waiting to be filled with solar panels, but the ground beneath those arrays can be as biologically rich as any national park. New research on a ...

Alkali Milkvetch (Astragalus tener var. tener) is a member of the legume or pea family. The pea family is the third largest family of flowering plants with about 750 genera and well over 19,000 ...