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Field Notes & Dispatches · Asclepias · Appalachia
Four Days in the Cove: A Field Dispatch from the Cullowhee Native Plant Conference
Field Notes · Cullowhee Native Plant Conference · Western North Carolina. Jonas and Megan drive north for four days of rhododendron on the rock, endemics on the serpentine barren, and the mountain natives worth bringing home to the garden.
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