Desert willow is a deciduous shrub or small tree native to the southwestern United States and northern Mexico. This plant ...

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 ...

Holmgren's milk vetch is so finely adapted to its arid northern Mojave Desert environment that it's often the only plant found alive atop special soils strewn with small stones and gravel deposits.

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 ...

Seeds are commonly broadcast by hand for small restoration areas ... Intensive revegetation in Arizona's hot desert: The advantages of container stock. Native Plants Journal 5, 173-180 (2004).

But even small changes in temperature or precipitation could drastically impact plants and animals living in the desert. In some cases global warming is predicted to increase the area of deserts ...

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 ...

cuneifolia, small, flowering evergreen shrubs related ... of attention to what’s in the soil,” Aronson says. Because desert plants usually face extremely poor nutrient availability, many ...