Something else about this new plant intrigued Stagg. El Niño is a hybrid of an unusual pair of native plants: catalpa, a tree ...

But out here, on a sandy high desert stretch between Joshua Tree and Barstow, a seedling was bursting through the soil in ...

These shrubs provide habitat and food for many desert reptiles (including the desert tortoise), amphibians, and small mammals, as well as providing early nectar to at least 22 species of native bees.

Teaching High Desert students about the use of native plants in landscaped yards has many benefits. First of all, native shrubs like creosote, rubber rabbitbrush, Mormon tea and California buckwheat ...

They are true desert plants originating from our Southwestern deserts and include hopseed bush, Arizona rosewood, creosote bush, jojoba, yellow bells and little leaf cordia.

For years scientists have wondered how the desert rhubarb manages to grow leaves that reach a diameter of up to one meter while other desert plant species typically have small and spiky leaves.Now ...

If you want this plant for your landscape, a native desert willow, if it's happy and in its ideal situation, it can hit up to 50 to 60 feet high, which is quite a large tree.

Desert spoon is a plant native mostly to the Chihuahuan Desert of the Southwestern U.S. It will grow to about 6 or 7 feet and is not used for shade but is what landscape designers and architects ...

The land trust grows its plants from seeds collected on its desert lands, and creosote is slow-growing, so it won’t have any of those plants to sell until next year’s fall sale, said Asbell ...

The Bush Fire was fully contained on July 6, 2020, but not before damaging thousands of saguaros and native plants. When fire burns across the bottom of saguaros, they usually do not recover well.