A flower returnsSourced
A flower thought lost
was back in its old cave.
A Colorado columbine variety had not been recorded in the wild since 1892 and was presumed extinct. In 2008, specimens were collected at the same locality where it had first been found.
A reunion at the same site
after more than a century.
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