Monocots and dicots. Those are words most of us haven't heard since high school biology days, if we even heard them at all. But now, a walk through the spring woods will thrust a common monocot, the ...

Lilies are monocotyledons, plants which have flower parts in multiples of three, parallel leaf veins and fibrous, branching roots. They often have strap-like leaves in a clump at the base of the plant ...