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Saints' Daisy, which according to conservationists had been collected just 77 times before they were rediscovered on Santa Cruz Island earlier this year.Before this spring, the last time anyone had laid eyes on a small flower with lavender petals on Santa Cruz Island was nearly 60 years ago.The plant is called Saints' Daisy."So it's in the sunflower family," said Sean Carson with the Santa Barbara Botanical Garden who helped rediscover the rare flower on the island.
"We inherited a bunch of threats that were on the island," said Knapp, including pigs and sheep that were brought on to the island for ranching but had become feral. The rest of the team had studied photos of the flower and old herbarium records of when it was last seen on the island nearly 60 years ago.
"It's kind of this steep terrain where, you know, soil's falling," Caron remembered."You've got some manzanita, but then there's a kind of a dense area of pines and it's create this kind of canopy.""The understory just had that feeling where you're like your hair sticks up on your neck. And I'm like, 'OK, this seems like Saints' Daisy habitat,'" Carson said."I just had that gut feeling.
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