Conglomerate Mesa is one of the most incredible sky islands in the West—rising like a giant cupcake above the desert, frosted with rare plants like the Inyo rock daisy.

Now, Canadian mining company K2 is nearly approved to drill it for gold.

#ProtectConglomerateMesa #PublicLands #botany

🚨Urgent: Help Save Decades of Work by Navajo Botanists🚨

For decades, Arnold Clifford has built up the Carrizo Mountain Herbarium. Now, this collection is at risk—snowstorms are causing the roof to cave in, putting >30,000 specimens in danger.

#IndigenousScience #Conservation #MutualAid #botany

Very excited to introduce the newest genus of wild sunflowers, a tiny desert annual covered in dense wool and heads with just two small ray florets.

Ovicula biradiata, a new Composite from Big Bend National Park in Trans-Pecos Texas doi.org/10.3897/phyt... via @phytokeys.pensoft.net

A bright spot in a dark week. The International Compositae Alliance (TICA) has just put out the newest volume of the bi-annual publication Capitulum 3(2) and this issue has STYLE. 😎🌼

OA, here: www.compositae.org/capitulum_03...

#botany #plantscience #ecology #biodiversity #evolution #asteraceae

Cliff ecosystems are rich in bizarre, unique plants and animals but many facts about their ecology, evolution, and conservation remain mysterious.

Now out, open access, is an entire special issue devoted to cliff research in Basic and Applied Ecology:

www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...