The quiet extinction
Subtitle: stories of North America's rare and threatened plants
By: Kara Rogers
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 238
ISBN-13: 9780816531066
Subjects: Endangered plants; Endemic plants; Plant conservation
Description: "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"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-230) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Whitebark pine; title: Fraser fir; title: Plants and their animals; title: Lost in the wild; title: Mead's milkweed; title: Florida torreya; title: Fickeisen plains cactus and acuña cactus; title: Penstemon; title: Golden paintbrush; title: Hidden value; title: The northern plants; title: Afterword.