This 19-inch-tall, yellow-reddish flower is only known to survive in one spot in southwest New Mexico. “The disappearance of this ornate, almost luminous flower went unnoticed as cattle trampled our ...

Question: We are considering a trip in mid-April to the Santa Fe and Albuquerque areas and want to find out when desert wildflowers are most likely to bloom and where to find them. K. Kinter ...

SILVER CITY, N.M.— The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service proposed today to protect Wright’s marsh thistle, an imperiled wetland plant in New Mexico, as a threatened species under the Endangered Species ...

Half an hour from El Paso, Marta and Natalie Viramontes are defying traditional norms in the farming industry by cultivating vibrant flowers in the desert landscape of New Mexico.

Southern Utah wood rats have genetically adapted to eat the toxic leaves of the desert-hardy creosote bush, also native to ...

NEW MEXICO (KRQE) – A rare New Mexico flower is in danger of extinction and was listed as endangered under the Endangered Species Act, according to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. The swal… ...

The showiest blanketflowers from the garden center include the 30-plus hybrids of Gaillardia x grandiflora. That's an interspecies hybrid resulting from crosses of G. aristata and G. pulchella.

A rare desert flower that once lived in southern New Mexico was granted protections as an endangered species this week, following multiple petitions and a lawsuit from conservationists against the ...