Hieracium snowdoniense
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| Hieracium snowdoniense Sell & C.West [1] |
Hieracium snowdoniense, the Snowdonia hawkweed, is a plant endemic to Snowdonia, North Wales. It is a perennial, with bright yellow inflorescences.
It was believed to have become extinct in the early 1950s as a result of overgrazing. In 2002, the plant was re-discovered on steep slopes in the Cwm Idwal National Nature Reserve above Bethesda.
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- Hieracium snowdoniense. ARKive.
- "Plant thought extinct found on mountain", The Western Mail, 2002-08-06.
- Stephen Moss. "The creatures that came back from the dead", The Guardian, 2006-06-08.
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