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Rare winter flower ‘living its best life’ as other plants slumber

A rare Michigan flower is “living its best life” right now as other plants slumber the winter away. Yellow fumewort grows in ...

A rare desert plant shows benefits of sustainability efforts at a large solar array in the Mojave Desert

Although sunlight is one of the cleanest forms of renewable energy available, clearing large swathes of desert habitat to ...

Rare flower readies for winter bloom in West Michigan

The rare yellow fumewort thrives amid Michigan winter when other plants are long gone. But due to its threatened status, you ...
Earth.com

Recently discovered plant species is already endangered

Botanists discovered a new plant species in Colombia that is already endangered, naming it Aphelandra almanegra.
The Trentonian

The State We’re In: New Jersey’s rare plants need their day in the sun

Hidden in the wet, shady woods of northwest New Jersey blooms a remarkable and rare plant – Yellow Hammond’s Spring Beauty. Found nowhere else on Earth, it’s just one example of the many plants that ...
Texas Monthly

One of the Rarest of Texas’s Rare Plants Might Be Growing in Your Neighbor’s Garden

I recently went looking for one of the rarest of Texas’s rare plants in what seemed like an odd place: near the middle of Boerne. At Cibolo Nature Center, a hundred-acre preserve adjacent to Boerne ...
Central Jersey

New Jersey’s rare plants need their day in the sun

Hidden in the wet, shady woods of northwest New Jersey blooms a remarkable and rare plant – Yellow Hammond’s Spring Beauty. Found nowhere else on Earth, it’s just one example of the many plants that ...