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.

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. Two particular flowering plants are the toast of late spring and summer in Montana. In the ...

Look at this guy -- all dressed up and nowhere to go. It's kind of charming and kind of dorky. Hey, buddy! Wrong season! He'll learn. No pollinators around, no promise of summer, colder weather coming ...

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.

New Mexico is home to a plant that perfectly symbolizes the state's tenacity and natural beauty – the yucca. In fact, the yucca has been the state's flower for decades. As a symbol of adaptation and ...