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Yellow Lady Slipper
plants in Virginia? According to the project’s website, access to this information “provides a deeper understanding of Virginia’s plants and ecosystems, and increases our ability and desire to conserve the Commonwealth’s plants and environments they inhabit.” The information from the project will be used by professionals, researchers, conservationists, students, and amateur botanists, and anyone else needing a detailed reference on our plants. Such a reference is particularly important as a baseline in making conservation decisions—how do we know what to protect if we don’t know what’s here now?
No complete reference on Virginia’s flora currently exists. A
See PLANTS, Page B4
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