The dandelion is a very common plant in North America, with long, jagged leaves and distinctive yellow flowers that close before developing into fluffy white seed heads. Many people can identify a ...

What do you see when you look at a lawn stippled with the vivid yellow flowers of dandelions? A suburban scourge and weeding chore, or a mouthwatering buffet with several courses and drinks? They may ...

Now in January, the lengthening hours of sunlight call forth the earnest young seedlings of spring wildflowers like Sierra shooting stars (Dodecatheon jeffreyi) and ordinary weeds like dandelions ...

From delivering antioxidants to lowering blood sugar, this plant with a bad reputation among gardeners is a covert natural health superstar. Not only are dandelion greens safe to eat, but they also ...

You can eat it raw as you would any salad green, or you can eat it gently blanched with a traditional hot bacon dressing. It’s in season now, it’s green, and you can harvest it yourself or go to a ...

We no longer pull up or poison dandelions, do we? Now we see them as a beneficial plant, not the scourge of our lawns. Dandelions attract bees, ladybugs, praying mantis, predatory moths and other ...

Some of my raw salad materials for this week’s Times Leader test kitchen offering include ruby edged lettuce from the grocery, and dandelion greens from our backyard. The dandelion greens in the salad ...

Remember when Euell Gibbons made the Johnny Carson show just by claiming, har-har, that dandelions were edible? What a goof he was! Well, guess what. My local supermarket has had big stacks of ...