Celebrating Wildflowers - Rare Plant Conservation Success Stories

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	Rare Plant Conservation Success Stories The Forest Service and its partners and volunteers have had many successes in restoring and recovering rare plants on our national forests and grasslands across the country. We invite you to explore these tales with happy endings. *Forkleaved moonwort (Botrychium furcatum)* *Kentucky lady’s slipper (Cypripedium kentuckiense)* *Leafy Prairie-clover (Dalea foliosa)* *Holy Ghost Ipomopsis (Ipomopsis sancti-spiritus)* *Hutchison’s lewisia (Lewisia kelloggii* ssp. hutchisonii) Greenman's desert parsley (Lomatium greemanii) Macfarlane’s four-o’clock (Mirabilis macfarlanei) Fassett's locoweed (Oxytropis campestris var. chartacea) Degener's beardtongue (Penstemon degeneri) Clay phacelia (Phacelia argillacea) Robbins' cinquefoil (Potentilla robbinsiana) Tahoe yellow cress (Rorippa subumbellata) Pale blue-eyed grass (Sisyrinchium sarmentosum) Buffalo clover (Trifolium reflexum)**
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