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May 20, 2015
CENTRAL POINT, Ore. (AP) — Paul Benton looks down a 900-foot-long row of large-flowered woolly meadowfoam and he's seeing more of this endangered and extremely rare plant than most botanists could possibly see in their lifetimes.
“That's why it's called meadowfoam, because it's supposed to be like sea foam in a meadow,” says Benton, an Oregon Department of Transportation wetlands specialist. “In the wild, though, it's not. But here, it's cool to see.”
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