TY  - BOOK
AU  - Rogers,Kara
TI  - The quiet extinction: stories of North America's rare and threatened plants 
SN  - 9780816531066
AV  - QK86.N66 R64 2015
PY  - 2015///]
CY  - Tucson
PB  - The University of Arizona Press
KW  - Endangered plants
KW  - North America
KW  - Plant conservation
KW  - Endemic plants
N1  - 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
N2  - "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"--
UR  - https://depts.washington.edu/hortlib/book/quiet-extinction/
ER  -