Texas Has a New Desert Wildflower

Texas Has a New Desert Wildflower

Ovicula biradiata, a new genus in the sunflower family, was found in Big Bend National Park in Texas. Photo by James Bailey. By Timothy A. Schuler | PLANTS |  It’s not every day that park rangers identify a wholly new genus of plant. In fact, the last time was in 1976, when a botanist at Death Valley National Park first described Dedeckera eurekensis, a matting shrub that grows amid the rocky outcrops of the Mojave Desert. The discovery of Ovicu…