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 ...

The tiny, fuzzy-looking plants with yellow flowers growing among desert rocks in a remote area on the northern end of the park were not anything like they had seen before. After searching plant ...

There’s good reason these plants grow in the tiny spaces—the surrounding ... to caper berry plants that would thrive in a high desert, your crevice garden has to be suited to the local weather.

Read about a new Mojave Plant Seed & Seedling Guide created by DRI's Tiffany Pereira, a scientist and illustrator. Pereira ...

Researchers say odd-looking plants discovered by a volunteer and supervisory interpretive park ranger at a U.S. National Park are a new species.The unique plant was found growing on desert rocks ...

This new-found evidence of its feeding habits could help to focus search efforts on specific regions where these plants grow. The desert rat-kangaroo was known to eat mostly leaves of plants ...

Stinknet is a fast-growing plant that outcompetes native plants for resources. Originally from South Africa, this aggressive plant has rapidly spread across the desert landscape, displacing native ...