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 ...

Yet the Desert Botanical Garden is home to thousands of species of cacti, trees and flowers from all around the world. The garden's brightly colored plants sharply contrast the Sonoran Desert's ...

Spring marks the return not only of garden plants, but of weeds, too. Learn about 13 common weeds with yellow flowers you ...

In springtime, expect to see large open fields of bright yellow California poppies. Other notable flora include the orange tinge of the Calich globemallow, the white flowers of the desert ...

This delicate-looking plant is an annual herb that produces distinctive, half-inch-wide flowers with five yellow-orange petals. When the flowers bloom, the petals shed by midday. The primary threats ...

In March 2024, the park volunteer, Deb Manley, shared photos of the flowers — which measured 1 to 3 inches (2.5 to 7.6 centimeters) across and were poking out from between desert rocks — to ...