Evacuations were lifted Friday night for people near an ongoing fire that erupted Thursday at one of the world’s largest battery storage plants in the northern half of California.

Consider the common lawn weed Plantago lanceolata, otherwise known as ribwort or buckhorn plantain ... and other purposes. In California, about 65% of invasive plants were knowingly introduced.

And did you know a plantain plant can produce the starchy fruit for up to 100 years. You can eat it at different stages of ripeness: when it’s green (almost ripe,) when it is yellow (ripe,) or ...