Grand Canyon’s rarest plant, sentry milk-vetch (Astragalus cremnophylax var. cremnophylax), grows at only three locations on the South . This tiny member of the pea family with minute pale purple flowers favors very specific habitats at the canyon's edge. Listed as endangered in 1990, sentry milk-vetch is at risk of extinction because the plant exists in just three populations in very small . The 2006 Sentry Milk-vetch Recovery Plan prepared by the Fish and Wildlife Service called for a number of major actions to be implemented in order to protect the species, including es
Grand Canyon’s rarest plant, sentry milk-vetch (Astragalus cremnophylax var. cremnophylax), grows at only three locations on the South . This tiny member of the pea family with minute pale purple flowers favors very specific habitats at the canyon's edge. Listed as endangered in 1990, sentry milk-vetch is at risk of extinction because the plant exists in just three populations in very small . The 2006 Sentry Milk-vetch Recovery Plan prepared by the Fish and Wildlife Service called for a number of major actions to be implemented in order to protect the species, including establishing a refuge greenhouse (ex situ) population, conducting ecological studies of the plant’s habitat requirements, surveying potential habitat to see if other populations exist, and establishing new populations to meet recovery . Read more of this Canyon Sketches article here: Sentry milk-vetch Grand Canyon Nat Park.
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