Joshua trees' only pollinator -- whose evolution has synced with the predictably timely blossoming of their flowers.

Southern California’s iconic Joshua trees are flowering months ahead of schedule, baffling scientists and raising fears about ...

Joshua trees rely on a single moth species to reproduce.

From the archive: This story originally published in The Desert Sun in 2019. On this south-facing slope in Morongo Valley there is a forest of very old Yucca schidigera, known as the Mojave yucca.

Yucca is a unique, tropical-looking plant that is in full bloom across central Illinois right now. Yucca is a unique, tropical-looking plant that is in full bloom across central Illinois right now.

Thanks to an unexpectedly wet winter, it’s not hard this spring to spot chaparral yucca blooming on hillsides and ridgelines throughout Southern California. The plant is known as “our Lord’s candle” ...