The quiet extinction : stories of North America's rare and threatened plants / Kara Rogers.
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TextPublisher: Tucson : The University of Arizona Press, [2015]Copyright date: ©2015Description: 238 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmISBN: - 9780816531066
- 0816531064
- QK86.N66 R64 2015
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-230) and index.
Introduction -- Whitebark pine -- Fraser fir -- Plants and their animals -- Lost in the wild -- Mead's milkweed -- Florida torreya -- Fickeisen plains cactus and acuña cactus -- Penstemon -- Golden paintbrush -- Hidden value -- The northern plants -- Afterword.
"The Quiet Extinction explores the reasons many of our native plants are disappearing, noting their significance to the continent's natural heritage. Kara Rogers captures the excitement of their discovery, the tragedy that has come to define their existence, and the remarkable efforts underway to save them"--