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

The team sequenced the plant’s DNA and compared it with other specimens in the California Academy of Sciences’ herbarium. The ...

The Wooly Devil, or Ovicula biradiata​, was first spotted by botany volunteer Deb Manley and a park ranger in Big Bend ...

Photo courtesy of Big Bend National Park In a rugged stretch of desert in one of the nation’s most remote national parks, a volunteer’s eyes were caught by a colorful sight sprouting up from the beige ...

The plant, formally known as Ovicula biradiata, is especially notable for being the simultaneous discovery of a new species ...

A volunteer spotted the tiny, fuzzy plant with maroon florets while exploring the remote northern corner of Big Bend National ...

Staffers at Big Bend National Park discovered a new plant species “previously unknown to science,” the National Park Service confirmed Monday.

Apart from Washington DC, which is known for its cherry blossoms, there are 7 other destinations to witness the blooming of ...

Users of the iNaturalist app - scientists and park staff but also visitors and even kids - have logged 6,939 species in the Great Smoky Mountains.