In 2024, Big Bend National Park in Texas presented a particularly rare one – the first new plant genus and species to have been discovered in a US national park since 1976. The new species has ...

Newly discovered flower, the wooly devil, found in Texas’ Big Bend. First time in 50 years a new genus of plant found at a national park.

Say hello to the wooly devil. The type of sunflower is a new plant species, identified in Big Bend National Park in Texas. Ovicula biradiata, as it is formally known, is especially notable for ...

The team has taken to calling it the wooly devil for the dense fur-like fibers covering its leaves and because of the red-and-white flowers that bloom out and upward from its center.

Newly discovered flower, the wooly devil, found in Texas’ Big Bend. First time in 50 years a new genus of plant found at a national park.

Newly discovered flower, the wooly devil, found in Texas’ Big Bend. First time in 50 years a new genus of plant found at a national park.