Bush tomatoes, wattleseed, and desert figs are just a few examples of foods that flourish with minimal water. These plants are tough, resilient, and deeply adapted to the local climate.

Increasingly frequent and severe heat waves in the Southwest are damaging some desert plants known for thriving in harsh conditions. Saguaro cacti and agave have both suffered in sweltering ...

Yet the Desert Botanical Garden is home to thousands of species of cacti, trees and flowers from all around the world. The garden's brightly colored plants sharply contrast the Sonoran Desert's ...

The Sonoran Desert in southern Arizona is hot and sandy. But where the Santa Cruz River flows, you’ll find something like an ...

The answer to that was all around and dazzling because desert plants are programmed to race to make seeds and buds and flowers. The difference in the desert in three days time was astounding.

Cactus specialist Noemi Hernandez points to several examples of succulents ... summer extremes are changing the desert horticulture game. "The lengths plants have to go to avoid more water loss ...

Some of the showiest examples can be found in northwest Tucson ... But this crucial species serves as a nursery for a wide range of other desert plants that find shade, protection and welcoming ...

Priming crop plants with a microbe sourced from the roots of desert plants could be a powerful tool to boost crop plant's resilience to drought.

California's deserts are losing native plants to aggressive weedy species like Saharan mustard. New research shows its spread is disrupting biodiversity and reducing the desert's ability to ...