Last year, in an issue of our monthly newsletter for Yakima Master Gardeners, Jenny Mansfield recounted a stroll through her winter garden on the way to refilling the bird feeders. She noted that Lamb ...

Swedish physician, botanist and zoologist Carl von Linné is today famous as the father of binomial nomenclature, a system of naming species of living things by giving each a name composed of two parts ...

Oryza sativa is the scientific name for Asian rice, part of binomial nomenclature. Rice originated in ancient China's Pearl River valley and spread across Asia. China was the top rice producer in 2024 ...