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.

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 ...

When desert ecosystems have been ... and fires fueled by non-native plants are some of the many disturbance types of deserts (Figure 2). Depending on their type and severity, these disturbances ...

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 ...