As a gardener, it's helpful to be able to tell which plants are which. Here are some tips on how to get started with plant ID in the Sonoran Desert.

A newly discovered plant found by a national park volunteer in the Texas desert is a small, fuzzy flower that pokes up between rocks. With its limited range, this species could be threatened by ...

It’s a kind of desert moss that thrives in a variety of conditions on Earth, say Chinese scientists. It’s found from Antarctica to the Mojave, and they believe it could thrive on Mars, too, as ...

High Desert summers require specific gardening techniques due to extreme heat. Try growing these heat-tolerant plants this ...

The desert plants gathered by the Hohokam - and later the Tohono O'odham - for food, medicine, tools and other things are still around. Even so, many contemporary Tucsonans don't recognize their ...

The identification of this unique mechanism, in which the plant excretes salts to extract and condense water onto the surface of its leaves, has the potential to inspire the development of new ...

Scientists Identify Plant That Could Grow on Mars. by Victor Tangermann. 7.1.24, 12:31 PM EDT. ... "Desert moss is not edible, but it could provide other important services in space." ...

Before the pandemic, Desert Defenders commonly had “pull days,” when volunteers ventured into nature to remove pinpointed plants. Three of the more recent outings targeted invasive species on ...

To identify genes that contribute to the plants’ survival, Gutiérrez worked with ecologists, ... These mutations might help desert plants tolerate intense solar radiation, ...

The steady decline of plants in Southern California’s portion of the Sonoran Desert — which includes Anza-Borrego Desert State Park — is caused by climate change-driven heat increases ...

Kew scientists use paramotorists to collect rare plant species from Peruvian desert oases. Close. Advertisement. Skip ... They returned with several Tillandsia plants – the aim is to collect ...