[PCA] NEWS: Dainty Pink Mt. Diablo Buckwheat Rediscovered (CA)

[Plant Conservation]

http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2005/05/24_buckwheat.shtml

Dainty pink Mt. Diablo buckwheat rediscovered

By Robert Sanders, Media Relations | 24 May 2005

BERKELEY – A petite pink flower that hasn't been seen in 70 years has been
rediscovered on the flanks of Mount Diablo in Contra Costa County by a
University of California, Berkeley, graduate student.

The Mount Diablo buckwheat, Eriogonum truncatum, "has been a Holy Grail in
the East Bay for several decades," according to UC Berkeley botanist
Barbara Ertter, who confirmed the identification in the field on Friday.
Last reported in 1936, the flower was presumed extinct, she said, because
its habitat has been overrun by introduced grasses. It is one of only
three plants, all of them rare, that are endemic to Mount Diablo.

(See the rest of the press release at the link above.)