Recently in Botany
You see it everywhere in the desert: mature shrubs with little plants of other species in their shade.
The California desert is a botanical frontier, and there are discoveries to be made around every bend of the wash.
We know so little about the Black Hills in Imperial County. This piece may well be the only published description of the range's flora and fauna, sketchy as it is.
A sea of sagebrush may appear monotonous to the casual observer, but it turns out sagebrush is a pretty complex thing.
Unless these storms bring Southern California some much-needed rain this week, most of the California desert isn't going to have a stunning spring wildflower display this year.
The deserts are largely unexplored, in a biological sense: much of our deserts' biological diversity is yet to be discovered and described. It's a floristic frontier out there.
Americans have a conflicted relationship with weeds.
Blackbrush can live 400 years or more, but will this slow-growth plant survive climate change?
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