In sun-scorched expanse of Big Bend National Park, where the Chihuahuan Desert stretches seemingly endlessly, Deb Manley was lying on her stomach, peering at the ground. What she saw was no ordinary ...

A volunteer spotted the tiny, fuzzy plant with maroon florets while exploring the remote northern corner of Big Bend National ...

A volunteer at Texas’ Big Bend National Park spotted bright red blooms after rain in a remote stretch of desert, leading to ...

Deb Manley—a volunteer walking the rugged backcountry of Big Bend National Park after a recent rain—noticed tiny, strange ...

Deb Manley picked the name based on the plant's wooly hairs and its tendency to have two ray florets that "sort of look like ...

A park supervisor and a local volunteer have introduced the world to the “woolly devil,” a plant species no other botanists ...

Scientists have identified both a new species and genus of sunflower in the Texas desert, but climate change may threaten its ...

Researchers call the plant the wooly devil because of its fuzzy appearance and the red horn-like flowers that bloom from it. Photo by Deb Manley, et al. (2025) PhytoKeys “While many assume that ...

Deb Manley picked the name based on the plant’s wooly hairs and its tendency to have two ray florets that “sort of look like devil horns,” according to Lichter Mark. The wooly devil is small — it can ...