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

"They chose the name Ovicula, which means "tiny sheep" in Latin, due to the plant's fuzzy appearance resembling wool. The species name biradiata refers to the two ray petals found in each flower.

Staff members at Big Bend National Park in Texas were sure in for a surprise when they stumbled upon a rare looking plant that almost looks straight out of a cartoon! The tiny plant is furry looking, ...

The team sequenced the plant’s DNA and compared it with other specimens in the California Academy of Sciences’ herbarium. The sequencing revealed that this small and fuzzy plant is both a new ...

The woolly devil—a recently identified plant species—has researchers intrigued because it belongs to a brand new genus.

What she saw was no ordinary desert plant. Tiny, fuzzy, and crowned with maroon florets, it looked like something out of a fairy tale. “I had never seen anything like it before,” said Manley ...

This is the first new genus and species of plant discovered in a National Park in over 50 years, according to the California Academy of Sciences. The name Ovicula Biradiata was given based on its ...