While walking in Big Bend National Park in Texas' Chihuahuan Desert, a park volunteer came across a fuzzy flower that turned out to be a never-before-seen species. The "woolly devil," as ...

Something magical is happening in the barren landscape of the Atacama Desert in Chile ... Patches of delicate white and purple flowers have suddenly bloomed in parts of the Atacama, Reuters ...

A Nevada wildflower was declared endangered at the only place it's known to exist — on a high-desert ridge where a ... 6-inch-tall (15-centimeter-tall) flower with yellow blooms raises another ...

And if you're a fan of desert succulents and wildflowers and all of the pretty prickly things that spring up around the state's sunnier regions, you're likely always on the search for where you ...

The Atacama Desert in northern Chile is one of the driest places on Earth, but swaths of its usually barren sand are currently carpeted with a colorful bloom of white and purple flowers.

“Never in my life would have thought there would be this many flowers in the desert,” said Chandini Sharma, who clutched her iPhone while FaceTiming a friend in India. “She was ...