After 20-Year Mapping Effort, Hoping to Save Dozens of Native Plants<br><br><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/03/nyregion/03flora.html">http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/03/nyregion/03flora.html</a><br><br>American colonists once watched for the spring bloom of the <a href="http://nymf.bbg.org/species/614" title="Background on the plant.">Nantucket shadbush</a>, a sign that it was warm enough to bury the winter’s dead.               <p>


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
<a href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/organizations/b/brooklyn_botanic_garden/index.html?inline=nyt-org" title="More articles about Brooklyn Botanic Garden" class="meta-org">Brooklyn Botanic Garden</a> report.              </p>

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