BIG BEND NATIONAL PARK, Texas (KOSA ... “Little fuzzy sheep with ray flowers,” joked VandenBerg. “Ovicula,” which means tiny sheep — a reference to the thick white wool-like material ...

Dubbed the wooly devil, the flower with furry leaves, purplish-striped petals and pops of yellow is a new genus and species in the same family as sunflowers and daisies: Asteraceae. It was discovered ...

(CNN) - Staff members at Big Bend National Park discovered a brand-new plant ... And biradiata refers to the two ray petals in each flower. They nicknamed it “wooly devil.” ...

with a few unremarkable disk flowers between them. Big Bend National Park botanist Carolyn Whiting photographs the tiny woolly devil sunflower. Wild sunflowers tend to thrive in harsh environments ...

This photo by James Bailey shows the wooly devil flower in Big Bend National Park on April 6, 2024. (James Bailey via AP) DALLAS (AP) — Scientists who want to learn more about a tiny flower recently ...

Dubbed the wooly devil, the flower with furry leaves ... It was discovered last year in Big Bend National Park, known for its rugged terrain of desert, canyons and mountains, on the border ...