New discovery at Big Bend: The “Wooly Devil” flower
BIG BEND NATIONAL PARK, Texas (KOSA ... “Little fuzzy sheep with ray flowers,” joked VandenBerg. “Ovicula,” which means tiny ...
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Meet the ‘Woolly Devil,’ the Strangest Sunflower You’ve Ever Seen
A tiny, woolly flower found hiding in Texas’s Big Bend National Park shows the intriguing strangeness of sunflowers ...
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Meet the ‘Wooly Devil,’ the First New Plant Genus Discovered in a National Park Since 1976
A volunteer spotted the tiny, fuzzy plant with maroon florets while exploring the remote northern corner of Big Bend National ...
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New plant discovered at Big Bend National Park
(CNN) - Staff members at Big Bend National Park discovered a brand-new plant ... And biradiata refers to the two ray petals in each flower. They nicknamed it “wooly devil.” ...
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Big Bend National Park home to newly discovered plant species
Last March, a Big Bend National Park botany program volunteer along with ... They noted the plant’s “fuzzy foliage and interesting flower” that didn’t resemble plants they’d seen previously.
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From the Desert to the Mountains: 15 Top Things to Do in Big Bend National Park
Big Bend National Park protects a chuck of the West Texas desert where the road ends at the Mexican border. The skies are as ...
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New plant discovered at Big Bend National Park
(CNN) - Staff members at Big Bend National Park discovered a brand-new plant ... And biradiata refers to the two ray petals in each flower. They nicknamed it “wooly devil.” This spring, scientists ...