Reintroduction experiments give new hope for plant on brink of extinction
Tuesday, March 18, 2014 - 12:30
in Biology & Nature
A critically endangered plant known as marsh sandwort is inching back from the brink of extinction thanks to the efforts of a plant ecologist. Although it used to occur all along the west coast, from San Diego to Washington state, this wetland plant with delicate white flowers had dwindled to one population in a boggy wetland in San Luis Obispo County.