Since 1968 the Missouri Department of Conservation has maintained a list of our state Champion Trees, which are defined as the largest known trees of a species native to Missouri.

Bradford pear trees have been designated as an invasive species in the United States. The Missouri Department of Conservation is offering a buyback program with a free replacement tree pickup in ...

The University of Missouri Extension and the Department of Conservation are enlisting landowners to plant and care for white oak seedlings. The tree species is essential for wildlife and industry ...

I've got one planted in my front yard." Wild plum is not a tree, but a shrub, and it blooms in the spring as well. There are many species of plums in Missouri, but this is one of the most common.

A research team at the University of Missouri is using artificial intelligence to monitor the spread of invasive Callery pear trees across the state, specifically focusing on mid-Missouri.

Fiaoni said the nursery, now managed by the state, is constantly evolving and grows 70 different tree species each year. “We grow approximately 30,000 to 40,000 white oak seedlings here every ...

These trees, known for their rapid growth, ecological harm and unpleasant odor, have overtaken large swaths of the Midwest and Eastern United States, crowding out native species and breaking easily ...

COLUMBIA − This fall, trees could lose their leaves early or begin changing colors earlier than normal, according to the Missouri Department of Conservation. That's due to the dry conditions ...

Trinklein refers to the dogwood tree as “nature’s little showoff” or the “candelabra of color.” The Missouri legislature named the flowering dogwood the state tree on June 20, 1955.