If you’ve been on queer TikTok lately, you may have noticed a new fascination with Touch Me Nots. Search “touch me not” or “stone lesbian” and you’ll find hundreds of posts of queer women and lesbians ...

More commonly known as the sensitive plant or touch-me-not plant, Mimosa pudica is a tropical shrub that closes its leaves when touched. The plant is native to Central and South America and features ...

A cool, foggy, summer dawn several years ago found me deep in a holler in eastern West Virginia, starting a day of botany. It was Pocahontas County, way up in the Monongahela National Forest (not so ...