After thousands of rare Chilean cacti were found in the house of an Italian collector, a years-long trial slowly unravelled ...

Scientists have identified both a new species and genus of sunflower in the Texas desert, but climate change may threaten its ...

In response to a petition from the Center for Biological Diversity, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced today that the rare western ... small herbaceous plant with delicate pale pink flowers ...

The plant, formally known as Ovicula biradiata, is especially notable for being the simultaneous discovery of a new species and genus. It was found with help from the community science app iNaturalist ...

PHOENIX (AZFamily) — Two research canines are about to embark on a trip to Northern Arizona to help find rare and endangered plant species. Desert Botanical Garden in Phoenix is known for its ...

This huge expanse of land is also home to numerous imperiled species, including the threatened desert tortoise, the endangered Peninsular bighorn sheep, the cushenberry buckwheat, and many other rare ...

A rare snowfall in the Sonoran desert, January 2019 ... two years to reveal how the lingering evidence, the dried dead plants, fade away… until all that remains are seeds in the sand.

But “the truth is that desert plants in many cases are very sensitive,” Lichter Marck says. Plants like the wooly devil depend on “good rain years,” which are expected to become more rare. Lichter ...