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 ...

The Saguaro Cactus in the Desert. The saguaro cactus is one of the most iconic plants of the American Southwest and can grow to be over 50 feet tall and live for hundreds of years. They are native ...

We may imagine the desert to be a barren, empty place of sun drenched sands. But here, in the deserts of Arabia, a myriad of beautiful flowers bloom.

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

This plant is so common in Tucson, it’s easy to forget it comes from the Chihuahuan desert. The dark purple flowers are a bee magnet, and the delicate lacy form make this shrub a great addition ...

White desert plumbago (Plumbago scandens) is a native mid-size shrub that has lovely white flowers at the ends of long stalks. It’s roughly mounded in shape and grows about 3-4 feet tall and wide.

The desert may seem like the last place you'd expect to find flora. Yet the Desert Botanical Garden is home to thousands of species of cacti, trees and flowers from all around the world.

Desert willow (Chilopsis linearis). A small, graceful tree that grows to a max of 30 feet, the desert willow produces fragrant, trumpet-shaped flowers and beanlike seedpods.

If April showers bring May flowers, what will May rainstorms bring? The answer to that was all around and dazzling because desert plants are programmed to race to make seeds and buds and flowers.

We all know cacti store water—but to survive, they migrate their flowers, and so much more. Scientists want to copy the resilient plants' methods to help engineer our future.