10 facts across the U.S.
The pecan is Alabama's official state nut. The pecan is a large, deciduous tree in the hickory family and is native to N…
American ginseng (Panax quinquefolius) is found primarily in the deciduous forests of the Ozark region in northern Arkan…
Yosemite Falls in California's Yosemite National Park plunges 2,425 feet in three cascades, making it the tallest waterf…
The Charter Oak was a majestic, unusually large white oak tree growing on Wyllys Hyll in Hartford, Connecticut, from aro…
Great Basin National Park in eastern Nevada shelters Great Basin bristlecone pines — among the longest-lived organisms o…
Before 1904, roughly one in every four trees in the eastern United States was an American chestnut — an estimated four b…
The rainforests of the Hoh River valley on Washington's Olympic Peninsula sit just across the border from Oregon, but Or…
The Angel Oak on Johns Island, South Carolina is a Southern live oak estimated to be between 400 and 500 years old, maki…
Congaree National Park in South Carolina protects the largest intact expanse of old-growth bottomland hardwood forest re…
The Great Smoky Mountains straddling the Tennessee-North Carolina border are named for the natural blue haze that perpet…