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.

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

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 ...

Even in the Desert, Plants Feel the Heat of Global Warming. News. By Monica Konjia published 2 April 2010 ... and the researchers make marks on the sheets to identify the location of each seedling.

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 ...

Desert plant life in California disappearing due to climate change, UC Irvine study says Researchers looked at the greater Anza-Borrego area, but similar long-term trends are found elsewhere.

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 ...

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