TOP 10 MOST ENDANGERED PLANTS

TOP 10 MOST

The endangered
Plants

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Rafflesia arnorldii is the
largest flower on planet.
Its grow three feet in diameter
and weight up to 24 pounds.
The rafflesia is parasitic growing
on the tetrastigma vine in
the forest Borneo and Sumatra

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ARIZONA
ARIZONA

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With less than 100 plants alive in
1984, it has managed to keep its

population from declining
considerably. Only forest of
scalding Arizona. The new river
mountain are though to be the
only habitats of this rare specimen

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IN 1992, THERE WERE ABOUT 150 PLANTS OF
THE SOLANUM DRYMOPHILUM LEFT. NATIVE
TO PUERTO RICO, THIS BUSH HAS SHARP
THRONS THAT PROTECT IT FROM BEING EATEN.
IT IS CLOSE TO EXTINCTION BECAUSE OF THE
HARM THAT IS DONE TO A GRAZING ANIMAL

THAT INGEST IT.

OUACHITA

Mountains
Goldenrod

Thought to be a remnants of the last ice
age, thr actual population of Solidago
ouachitensis is unknown. It live in three
counties along the border of Arkansas

and Oklahoma. It prefers to live in a cool
moist climate.

Symphyotrichum georgianum is native
to southeastern United States.

This plants first grew in small clumps,
but now there about 60 population of
this plant due to natural
habitats development.

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ACALYPHA
ACALYPHA

Its native to tiny part of the Galapagos island
. Construction work and loss of habitats are the main reason

these plants have declined in number.
They are considered a critically Endangered

by the Galapagos Conservation Trust.

ZIZANIA TEXANA ONLY HAS 140 CLUMPS
LEFT, WITH A SEEMINGLY GRIM FUTURE

AHEAD. GROWING ONLY IN THE
FRESHWATER OF SAN MARCOS RIVER,

THIS PLANT IS ENDANGERED BY
LOWERING WATER LEVELS CAUSED BY

THE SPRING LAKE DAM.

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TEXAS

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HOWELL'S SPECTACULAR
THELYPODY

Thelypodium howelii spectabiilis only has
five population remaining, all of them in

oregon's northeast. In 1999, about 30
thousand plants remained but its population

drops annually due to unnecessary grass
mowing in the areas this plants call home.

WESTERN PRAIRIE
FRINGED ORCHID

Plantanthera praeclara only exist in five U. S in the Midwest. The
endangered species coalition estimates that there are only 172
population of this plant. This wetland plant that grows in '' prairie

potholes '' indents left by glaciers in the recent ice age
,20000 years ago.

Stenogyne

KANEHOANA

THIS MEMBER OF THE MINT TO
BE EXTINCT IN 2000, UNTIL
ONE SIGHTING OF A PLANT
CONFIRMED IT WAS STILL

ALIVE. GROWING ONLY IN THE
WALANAE MOUNTAIN OF THE
ISLAND OF OAHU, THE
STEGYNE ARBORTEUM.