Desert plants may have to go without fresh water for years at a time. Some plants have adapted to the arid climate by growing long roots that tap water from deep underground. Other plants ...
What she saw was no ordinary desert plant. Tiny, fuzzy ... a volunteer with the park’s botany program. She snapped photos and uploaded them to iNaturalist, a citizen science platform, hoping ...
Deb Manley, the volunteer, snapped pictures of the plant and uploaded ... what they came across in the arid Chihuahuan Desert was an entirely new plant species – the first such discovery to ...
The tiny, fuzzy-looking plants with yellow flowers growing among desert rocks in a remote area on the northern end of the park were not anything like they had seen before. After searching plant ...
Desert ephemeral plants are known for their ability to complete their life cycle in a short period during brief windows of favorable conditions, such as rainfall or snowmelt. Relying heavily on ...