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

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 ...

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.

Its name reflects its unusual appearance: "Ovicula" means "tiny sheep," referring to the wool-like fuzz on its leaves ... properties in other sunflower family plants.

“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 ...