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Another Rediscovery

It's happened again, this time with the Mt. Diablo buckwheat (Eriogonum truncatum).

The Mount Diablo buckwheat, Eriogonum truncatum, "has been a Holy Grail in the East Bay for several decades," according to UC Berkeley botanist Barbara Ertter, who confirmed the identification in the field on Friday. Last reported in 1936, the flower was presumed extinct, she said, because its habitat has been overrun by introduced grasses. It is one of only three plants, all of them rare, that are endemic to Mount Diablo.

There are some nice photos of the plant in flower in the article.

And so it shall...

By Hungry Hyaena (not verified) at May 26, 2005 - 6:58pm |

...continue to happen as long as more competent people get out into the field. Even though many elder statesmen of wildlife biology point out that there is a general decline in natural history interest among youth, I feel this is one of percentage, not total number. In other words, even as more and more of our species becomes less interested, we will be putting more "boots on the ground," to borrow a particularly inappropriate phrase.