A new iPhone app called LeafSnap is a field guide for tech-friendly naturalists. It can identify a tree's species by analyzing a photograph of its leaf. [partner id ...

Computers are gaining on our botany skills. Scientists have developed software that combines machine learning and computer vision to guess which plant family a leaf belongs to. Although it's designed ...

Steve Nix is a member of the Society of American Foresters and a former forest resources analyst for the state of Alabama. The term "pinnate" comes from the Latin word pinnātus, meaning feathered or ...