Despite attempts to clarify plant names, features, and categories, gardening is still confusing. Here, we learn how to tell ...

Certain plants have a swollen, underground plant stem called a "corm." The purpose of this stem is to store nutrients, food ...

A corm is a short, thick, underground piece of stem that some plants use to store energy over the winter. They're often referred to as bulbs, but they aren't technically the same as a true bulb ...

LIFE CYCLE: The thread-leaved brodiaea germinates from an underground corm, or type of bulb ... the plants die back down to an underground remnant stem filled with stored nutrients so that it may ...