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Learn all about Osmanthus heterophyllus, a fragrant, fall-blooming shrub!

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At first glance, Decaisnea insignis isn’t a particularly striking shrub; growing between 10-15 feet high, its pinnately compound leaves arch away from the thick, central branches of the plant. It flowers in June, with long strings of dangling greenish flowers that can be hard to notice, blending with the yellows and greens of the rest of the plant. What does make you look twice ...

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  The weekend of June 5th-8th, 14 Rare Care volunteers traveled to the Okanogan Highlands in the Tonasket Ranger District of the Colville National Forest and surrounding Bureau of Land Management land for our annual Monitoring Weekend. Almost every person found and surveyed our target species for the weekend – northern blue-eyed grass (Sisyrinchium septentrionale). Six of t...

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We expected this survey season to be difficult with a hot and dry spring and summer causing shorter and earlier windows for finding rare plants. However, our volunteers, ever dedicated to the cause, rose to the challenge. Sarah Stolar knew success would require arduous effort to reach a fern-leaf goldthread (Coptis aspleniifolia) population after Rare Care’s last three attempts ...

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Along the rutted road to Colockum Creek Area of Critical Environmental Concern (ACEC), remnant patches of 7-foot-tall big sagebrush (Artemisia tridentata) give a glimpse of what the ACEC might have looked like before recent wildfires. Today, most of the site is covered by a near-monoculture of nonnative cheatgrass (Bromus tectorum) and tumble mustard (Sisymbrium altissimum) beca...

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