These plants are incredibly drought-tolerant and can thrive in harsh desert conditions. To grow agave, plant it in ...

08 inches (2 mm) of precipitation a year ... blooms," where even the Atacama becomes blanketed in wildflowers. Desert plants may have to go without fresh water for years at a time.

You can, however ensure your garden sports color year-round simply by looking west to the Chihuahuan Desert. There, hardy plants have evolved that are able to thrive and bloom in whatever ...

Researchers Find An ‘Alien Plant’ In The Utah Desert In 1969, paleontologists studying flora in the Green River Formation near the ghost town of Rainbow, Utah, discovered an unusual fossil ...

But have you ever wondered what plants and animals live in a desert and how they survive there? This is the Sahara. The largest desert on Earth! Wow! It looks like it hardly ever rains here.

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 ...

For a plant, life in Argentina’s Monte Desert is hard enough. Daily temperatures can fluctuate dramatically; it rarely rains, and there are few nutrients in the parched soil for a hungry plant. To add ...