Many gardeners will pull any plant they didn't place themselves, but if you spot this curious weed in your garden, there are ...

Prairie dock, pictured here with butterfly weed, has spade-shaped basal leaves. Deeply lobed leaves of the compass plant are behind the prairie dock leaves. Compass plants and prairie dock belong ...

Even before blooming, prairie dock is an impressive plant with its eye-catching, large leaves. The foliage typically grows to 3 or 4 feet tall, sometimes taller.

While curly dock is a formidable threat to native plant communities, it has some positive aspects. If the leaves are picked while they are young, oxalate is still at low concentrations.

If this is true, then there is nothing special about the dock leaf and a lettuce leaf should be able to do the job just as well. So when you go on your woodland walk this summer, you may want to ...

Rubbing a dock leaf on a nettle sting was first mentioned 600 years ago by Geoffrey Chaucer in Troilus and Criseyde, but there is little evidence that it contains special properties that would ...

Some plant names are self-explanatory: Curled Dock has curled, wavy leaves and Clustered Dock has clustered flowers. No prizes for guessing the explanations for the names Wood Dock and Broad ...

The dock leaf flowers are now stringy and brown. “You can grind them down to make flour, which is good for stodgy baking like brownies,” she tells me, rubbing the flowers between her fingers.