A guide to six flower seeds to collect in July, including coreopsis, gaillardia, foxglove, blanket flower, and lupines, along ...

For more than 15 years, botanist Naomi Fraga of the California Botanic Garden has been trying to collect seeds from the rare Death Valley sage, for safekeeping in a vault of native California seeds.

For more than 15 years, botanist Naomi Fraga has been trying to collect seeds from the rare Death Valley sage, for safekeeping in a vault of... A botanist searches for the seeds of the rare Death ...

Botanist Naomi Fraga has been trying for years to collect seeds from the rare Death Valley sage for safekeeping in a vault of native seeds. This year, with the desert in the midst of a big bloom, ...

This is the remains of an abandoned mine in the Nopah Range near Death Valley, California on Sunday March 22, 2026. (Krystal Ramirez for NPR) For more than 15 years, botanist Naomi Fraga of the ...