A newly discovered plant found by a national park volunteer in the Texas desert is a small, fuzzy flower that pokes up between rocks. With its limited range, this species could be threatened by ...

After decades of looking for new and exotic plants, gardeners are starting to use what’s local: our native prairie shrubs. “Native shrubs combined with exotics give us a huge palette of plants ...

Sometimes the best way to kindle a romance is with actual fire. After tracking flowers on a prairie in Minnesota for 21 years, scientists reported this week that the plants reproduce more ...

The flowers grow in round balls made up of tiny bright orange individual flowers. The shrub has a rounded shape and is about even in height and spread. It grows at a medium rate, and will grow up ...

Say hello to the wooly devil. The type of sunflower is a new plant species, identified in Big Bend National Park in Texas. Ovicula biradiata, as it is formally known, is especially notable for ...

For more than a century, Prairie plant breeders have been introducing hardy, disease-resistant ornamental plants. They have changed our landscapes — and all for the better. Here are two new ...