While walking in Big Bend National Park in Texas' Chihuahuan Desert, a park volunteer came across a fuzzy flower that turned out to be a never-before-seen species. The "woolly devil," as researchers ...

“The white-margined penstemon is facing death by a thousand cuts,” said Donnelly. “The global extinction crisis is hitting home right here in the Mojave Desert, and we’re fighting back to save this ...

Most of the time desert flowers are invisible, spending their lives as seeds waiting for just the right amount of moisture to germinate. Each variety has its own strategy. "Where rosette plants ...