Teaching High Desert students about the use of native plants in landscaped yards has many benefits. First of all, native shrubs like creosote, rubber rabbitbrush, Mormon tea and California ...

The Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum, at 2021 N. Kinney Road, is presenting a class March 18 in which participants can learn how native plants help heal parts your body.

Two Indigenous food educators led a tour showcasing edible and useful Sonoran Desert plants. Participants learned about palo verde flowers for tea, edamame-tasting pods and hunting woodrats.

Celebrate the desert's dazzling plants at ‘Xerophilous' The Living Desert is spotlighting arid landscape amazingness; think ocotillos, palo verde trees, and beautiful barrel cactuses, too.

But as climate change makes heat waves more frequent, intense and long-lasting, experts say the increasingly severe conditions are testing some iconic desert plants known for their resilience ...

Many desert plants can live for hundreds of years. But in California, the iconic Joshua tree—the oldest found was 1,000 years old—may not survive a hotter climate, scientists warn.If they don ...

These plants have different adaptations that allow them to survive and thrive in the desert environment. The Joshua tree, for example, has long roots that help it find water deep in the ground.

Two Indigenous food educators showcased the abundance of the Sonoran Desert during a tour for the Society of Environmental Journalists’ annual conference on April 25.. Their wisdom, while better ...

The Southwest is no stranger to sweltering conditions, and desert plants and trees are drought-resistant and heat-tolerant. Arid, harsh environments are where they thrive.

Native desert plants are common in landscaping across Arizona to use less water, a practice called xeriscaping. “Science now is coming up to par with Indigenous knowledge,” Lazos-Ferns ...