Perennials, shrubs and small trees native to the Chihuahuan Desert give color to San Antonio gardens while providing food and ...

The enormous edible white flowers held on tall stalks above the plants proved one of their most reliable food supplies as well. The Cahuilla of our desert utilized yucca fiber for sandal straps ...

Desert plants may have to go without fresh water ... which lays its eggs inside the Joshua tree flower. Desert bird species could also be in danger from climate change, as heat waves lead to ...

As a fly searches deeper into the flower ... North America’s driest desert, by growing extremely slowly - only when water is available. This individual plant is over 10,000 years old.

Over the next few days we were able to capture our second extremely rare desert event. A wild flower bloom ... the dried dead plants, fade away… until all that remains are seeds in the sand.

a desert flower that has disappeared across much of the Mojave Desert. The charismatic plant, which has showy yellow flowers and bear-claw leaves, has been pushed to the brink of extinction by ...

“Thankfully this beautiful desert gem will now get the scientific ... of woody vegetation and regenerated the grasses the flower’s roots parasitize, intensive grazing pressure, and nonnative plants.

Botanist Gustaf Starck rallied people passionate about preserving desert plants with a sign outside his Scottsdale ranch. “Save the Desert,” it said.

The tour focused on California native trees and the flowers blooming in the gardens on the early February morning. Featured trees were Valley Oaks, Desert Willow, and Bue Elderberry.