The Pink Prairie Mascot
- Author
- Interlochen Public Radio
- Published
- Fri 15 Aug 2025
- Episode Link
- https://play.prx.org/listen?ge=prx_11016_495a229d-f852-49d2-831f-bf763df412d2&uf=https%3A%2F%2Fpublicfeeds.net%2Ff%2F11016%2Ffeed-rss.xml
In 2014, a group of botanists discovered that a very rare plant native to the Kankakee River in Illinois, had vanished from its only known native habitat in the world. That set off a quest to bring back the missing Midwestern flower.
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