Maine 1880. Botanist and artist Kate Furbish was on a quest to document all of the state’s flowering plants. When she uncovered a new species, she ended up being one of the few women at the time to have a plant named after them in Gray’s Manual. Incidentally, that species would become one of the first plants to be listed under the Endangered Species Act. This is the story of Kate Furbish’s lousewort. #ESA50
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📸 Portrait of Kate Furbish, George J. Mitchell /Department of Special Collections & Archives, Bowdoin College Library, Brunswick, Maine
📸Image of Kate Furbish’s lousewort, USFWS