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As gardeners, we know that plants hold immeasurable value, from intrinsic beauty to life-saving medicine. Yet an alarming number of plants have gone extinct, and one in five existing plants is in ...

ATLANTA— The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today issued a final rule to protect the Ocmulgee skullcap as endangered under the Endangered Species Act. The Service also designated 6,661 acres of ...

Protection is being sought for a rare flower that has bloomed in the Northwest since the ice age floods. Many of the remaining plants are found within miles of the Tri-Cities. Much of what remains of ...

TUGUEGARAO CITY, CAGAYAN, Philippines — Environmentalists recently discovered the rare endemic parasitic plant Rafflesia lagascae in Barangay Eva, Calanasan town, Apayao, during a slash-and-burn ...

PORTLAND, Ore.—The Center for Biological Diversity petitioned the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today to protect the Ochoco lomatium under the Endangered Species Act. These rare flowers in the carrot ...

KALAMAZOO, Michigan — While most of Michigan's native plant species are hunkered down for the season, a rare winter flower is living its best life in parts of West Michigan. The yellow fumewort avoids ...

You do not build a jaw-dropping garden with petunias and polite hydrangeas. You build it with plants that make people stop mid-sentence, tilt their heads, and ask, “What on earth is that?” Rare plants ...

A rare Michigan flower is “living its best life” right now as other plants slumber the winter away. Yellow fumewort grows in parts of southwest Michigan. It avoids competition by completing its life ...