Walking through the boundless landscape of red rocks and limestone cliffs in Texas' Big Bend National Park last March, a ...

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

The Wooly Devil, or Ovicula biradiata​, was first spotted by botany volunteer Deb Manley and a park ranger in Big Bend ...

A new plant species, the Wooly Devil (Ovicula biradiata), has been discovered in Texas's Big Bend National Park. This tiny, ...

A new plant species, Ovicula biradiata, also known as "Wooly Devil," was discovered in Big Bend National Park, marking a new ...

The team sequenced the plant’s DNA and compared it with other specimens in the California Academy of Sciences’ herbarium. The ...

Big Bend National Park staff members in Texas were the first to log the "wooly devil," a new plant species with the official name Ovicula biradiata.

Researchers with the California Academy of Sciences have discovered a new species of sunflower endemic to the harsh, rocky ...

Park botanist C. Whiting takes a closer look at wooly devil. Photo credit: NPS / D. Manley ...

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

A new plant species has been discovered at Big Bend National Park, the park announced in a news release Monday.

U S national parks are famed for their biodiversity, but even the most well-studied of places can still throw us a surprise ...