[PCA] After 20-Year Mapping Effort, Hoping to Save Dozens of Native Plants

[Marielle Anzelone]

After 20-Year Mapping Effort, Hoping to Save Dozens of Native Plants

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/03/nyregion/03flora.html

American colonists once watched for the spring bloom of the Nantucket
shadbush <http://nymf.bbg.org/species/614>, a sign that it was warm enough
to bury the winter’s dead.

Today, that shadbush and dozens of other flora native to the New York region
face extinction, a result of urban development and the encroachment of
invasive plants from foreign lands, scientists from the Brooklyn Botanic
Garden<http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/organizations/b/brooklyn_botanic_garden/index.html?inline=nyt-org>report.


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Marielle
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