The spiky desert succulents typically blossom beginning in late February. But this season, many started growing flowers up to ...

Photographers capturing earlier than expected blooming of the iconic Joshua trees in the Mojave Desert are being asked to ...

Joshua trees are weird. I say this as an expert on Joshua trees. Joshua trees look weird — their twisty branches end in bouquets of stiff, knife-like leaves, which die back to hang from the branches ...

The gangly, spiky plants that grow in the vital and sensitive Mojave Desert can live more than 150 years. But devastating wildfires have left behind millions of charred trees — actually succulents — ...

Their silhouettes are unmistakable: gnarled branches stretched out and up, greeting the desert sky with shocks of spiky leaves. As both a refuge and grocery store for dozens of native species, Yucca ...