SILVER CITY, N.M.— The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service proposed today to protect Wright’s marsh thistle, an imperiled wetland plant in New Mexico ... plants to also attract pollinators to the thistle ...
This 19-inch-tall, yellow-reddish flower is only known to survive in one spot in southwest New Mexico. “The disappearance of this ornate, almost luminous flower went unnoticed as cattle trampled our ...