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 at Texas’ Big Bend National Park spotted bright red blooms after rain in a remote stretch of desert, leading to ...
A volunteer spotted the tiny, fuzzy plant with maroon florets while exploring the remote northern corner of Big Bend National ...
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 ...
The Chihuahuan Desert is known as the largest desert in North America. The remote region makes up part of Big […] ...
A park supervisor and a local volunteer have introduced the world to the “woolly devil,” a plant species no other botanists ...
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 ...
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 ...