[PCA] NEWS: Botanists fight to save rare, native plant (UT)

[Olivia Kwong]

Botanists fight to save rare, native plant
CALEB WARNOCK - Daily Herald

Life is hard on these slopes.

An hour from Provo in Spanish Fork Canyon, midway up a hillside so steep a 
rope is required to climb it, are a handful of some of the rarest plants 
in the world, called clay phacelia. Entirely composed of flaking Green 
River shale, the barren landscape is the only place the plants are known 
to grow.

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