Bidens is a worldwide genus with hundreds of species, and Hawaii Island has one of these species all to its own. This endemic plant is...

Why, flowers, of course. And naupaka has both a legend and flowers, dainty white flowers. One version of the legend says that two lovers...

Uluhe is often thought of as an annoying plant. To hikers it can be scratchy, and its tangled webs call out for the machete to clear the...

Hawaii’s tree ferns are the gentle giants of our rain forests. Massive and shaggy, often leaning at scary angles, they tower and sway...

Lobelias. So many, so little space. I will speak of just one, Trematolobelia wimmeri, formerly known as grandifolia before she married...

’Ohelo belongs to a group of plants called pioneers. They are among the first to brave fresh lava flows where their small, stiff leaves...