Published on: 2025-09-25 22:10:47
Researchers have discovered a previously unknown member of the sunflower family in Texas’ Big Bend National Park—the first time a new plant genus and species has been identified in a U.S. national park in almost five decades. The flower, called Ovicula biradiata and dubbed the “wooly devil,” is described in a study published February in the journal PhytoKeys. The Big Bend National Park is well known to botanists, underscoring the fact that even extensively studied regions can still yield surpri
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