A cactus is typically viewed as the ultimate hands-off, fuss-free, impossible-to-kill plant. So, you can imagine our horror ...

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 ...

Desert plants may have to go without fresh water for years at a time. Some plants have adapted to the arid climate by growing long roots that tap water from deep underground. Other plants ...

Many of us who adopted the Sonoran Desert as our home within the last decade, like me, are so appreciative to learn of plants ...

Originally from South Africa, this aggressive plant has rapidly spread across the desert landscape ... to propagate quickly due to its signature yellow flowers that produce hundreds of seeds ...

But even small changes in temperature or precipitation could drastically impact plants and animals living in the desert. In some cases global warming is predicted to increase the area of deserts ...