UNC Biology’s Alan Weakley has been featured in an NYTimes story called, “How Many Plants Have We Wiped Out? Here Are 5 Extinction Stories.” Weakley’s extinction story focuses on large-flowered Barbara’s-buttons, a plant native to two western counties in North Carolina, which had been mistaken for a different species for the majority of its existence.
Read more here: https://nyti.ms/353pWT0