[PCA] NEWS: Volunteer efforts at park aim to preserve rare plant

[Olivia Kwong]

Volunteer efforts at park aim to preserve rare plant

By Suzanne Wentley
THE STUART NEWS
Posted June 23 2006

SAVANNAS STATE PRESERVE  Gently holding the small, reddish leaves, park 
Ranger Greg Kaufmann knelt in the sandy soil Thursday and patted the 
ground around one of the rarest plants in the nation.

Sweat soaking his shirt, he helped volunteers and experts from the 
Historic Bok Sanctuary in Lake Wales add 87 newly cloned plants to the 
park -- work meant to assure the survival of a sub-species of Lakela's 
mint, an endangered plant found only from Hobe Sound to Vero Beach.

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