A tiny, woolly flower found hiding in Texas’s Big Bend National Park shows the intriguing strangeness of sunflowers ...

biradiata is a member of the sunflower family ... a references to the white “wool” that covers the small plant's leaves. Biradiata is a reference to the strap-shaped petals on each flower.

However, you don't need to spray the delicious fruit with chemical pesticides to exterminate the leaf-footed invaders. Instead, you can plant sunflowers, specifically peredovik varieties ...

“O. biradiata is a member of the sunflower family, although it does not resemble its sunburst-shaped relatives at first glance.” The team sequenced the plant’s DNA and compared it with other ...