
This small diffuse plant is called the Lanudo Devil. It is the first new genre discovered in a United States National Park in 50 years.
In the extension of the Big Bles National Park of the Big Bend National Park, where the Chihuahuan desert extends apparently endless, Deb Manley was lying on his stomach, looking at the ground. What he saw was not an ordinary desert plant. Small, confusing and crowned with Garnet Florets, it seemed somewhat out of a…