This was the curious case of the Joshua tree and the yucca moth. We’ll start with the Joshua tree, the Mojave Desert’s most iconic plant. With its spiny fronds and clubbed tufts topped by ...

Let me try and resolve the issue. As desert botanists know, if a yucca is encountered in the Mojave, Great Basin or Sonoran deserts it is not necessarily a Joshua tree. Within the range of Yucca ...

An enduring symbol of the Mojave Desert, Yucca brevifolia might be the namesake of this national park in the desert east of Los Ange­les. Still, it’s far from the only thing to see at Joshua Tree.

Inside a Mojave aster flower ... future of the Joshua tree and working really hard to protect it.” A type of yucca, the twisted, Dr. Seuss-like tree, which lends its name to a national park ...

A new solar power project that will break ground in the Mojave Desert, near two Kern County towns in California, will require thousands of Joshua trees (Yucca brevifolia) to be removed.