BIG BEND NATIONAL PARK, Texas (KOSA ... “Little fuzzy sheep with ray flowers,” joked VandenBerg. “Ovicula,” which means tiny sheep — a reference to the thick white wool-like material ...

While walking in Big Bend National Park in Texas' Chihuahuan Desert, a park volunteer came across a fuzzy flower that turned out to be a never-before-seen species. The "woolly devil," as researchers ...

with a few unremarkable disk flowers between them. Big Bend National Park botanist Carolyn Whiting photographs the tiny woolly devil sunflower. Wild sunflowers tend to thrive in harsh environments ...

Dubbed the wooly devil, the flower with furry leaves ... It was discovered last year in Big Bend National Park, known for its rugged terrain of desert, canyons and mountains, on the border ...