This year’s wildflower bloom has ranged from marginal to a flat-out fizzle depending on location — but another desert plant is coming to the chromatic rescue with brilliant red blooms busting out all ...

They are fountains of flaming red blossoms 20 feet tall. People in Los Angeles want ocotillos, but Fouqueria splendens doesn't like the coast. Here in the desert, these water-loving plants from ...

Maybe you’ve seen an ocotillo out in nature. Driving down 385 toward Big Bend National Park, the plants are hard to miss, with their sprawling branches snaking their way toward the sky. The ...

Cactus blooms — like wildflowers earlier this year — are showing up well ahead of their usual schedule, botanists say. Species that don’t normally bloom until late April are flashing flowers now, and ...

Imagine going to your neighborhood grocery store and discovering no food. Even worse, imagine every grocery store within a day’s drive was without food. What would you do? For migrating hummingbirds, ...