Rare Ferns Discovered on Aleutian Island Peak
From Associated Press
ANCHORAGE —
The known population of one of the rarest plants in North America has been expanded more than tenfold with the discovery of about 100 of the plants in the Aleutian Islands.
Before the Aleutian-Shield fern plants were found last summer on Adak Island, biologists believed that only six of them were left on Earth. Botanists examining plant life on the island’s Mt. Reed found the pocket of Shield ferns not far from previously known plants.
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