Reposted by Donncha Ó Catháin
The valient efforts to rescue one of Ireland's rarest plants, hampered by the fact that no one is sure why it is being pushed out of it's traditional habitat
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Nature Trail: Can the Cottonweed be brought back from the brink of extinction?
Cottonweed, a native plant, is one of the rarest wild flowers found growing in Ireland. It used to grow at five sites nationwide but is now confined to a single site on the south Wexford coast.
