Mount Diablo buckwheat rediscovered in California
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| Taxonomic name: [[Wikispecies:Eriogonum truncatum|Eriogonum truncatum]]
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[[w:Mount Diablo buckwheat|Mount Diablo buckwheat]] is a small pink flower that was only known to grow on [[w:Mount Diablo|Mount Diablo]] in remote [[w:Contra Costa County|Contra Costa County]], [[:Category:California|California]].
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The [[w:University of California, Berkeley|University of California, Berkeley]] announced that one of its graduate students, Michael Park, rediscovered on May 24 the Mount Diablo buckwheat, a plant not sighted since [[w:1936|1936]] and believed to have been extinct.
Found nearly 30 miles east of [[w:San Francisco|San Francisco]], Park [aged 35] identified the small pink flowering plant said to resemble baby's breath during a routine visit to the mountain. He is currently pursuing his doctorate in integrative biology. 

The significance of the find drew comparisons to the recent discovery of the [[w:Ivory-billed woodpecker|Ivory-billed woodpecker]] in Arkansas earlier this year in April. The exact location of the flowering plant is, for now, being kept secret. Several botanists have confirmed it along with the nearly dozen or so other plants.

The property is being preserved by the ''Save Mount Diablo'' conservation group operating in the [[w:Mount Diablo State Park|Mount Diablo State Park]]. 

[[Image:Mount Diablo.jpg|thumb|center|600px|View of Mount Diablo. Taken from Dinosaur Hill Park, above Pleasant hill. Photo by User:Leonard G.]]  

==Related news==
*{{Wikinews|title=Rare woodpecker discovered in Arkansas
|date=April 28, 2005}}

== Sources ==
*{{source|url=http://www.newsday.com/news/health/ny-hsflow304283615may30,0,4398893.story?coll=ny-health-headlines 
|title=Thought gone, a flower's in the pink
|author=Assocated Press
|pub=Newsday.com
|date=May 30, 2005}}
*{{source|url=http://www.montereyherald.com/mld/montereyherald/news/11742768.htm 
|title='Extinct' buckwheat found on mountain
|author=By Justin M. Norton, AP writer
|pub=Monterey Herald
|date=May 26, 2005}}
* {{source|
url=http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2005/05/24_buckwheat.shtml|
title=Dainty pink Mt. Diablo buckwheat rediscovered|
author=Robert Sanders, Media Relations|
pub=University of California, Berkeley|
date=May 24, 2005}}

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Mount Diablo buckwheat

 Taxonomic  Eriogonum truncatum


Mount Diablo buckwheat is a small pink flower that was only known to grow on Mount Diablo in remote Contra Costa County, California.


The University of California, Berkeley announced that one of its graduate students, Michael Park, rediscovered on May 24 the Mount Diablo buckwheat, a plant not sighted since 1936 and believed to have been extinct.
Found nearly 30 miles east of San Francisco, Park aged 35 identified the small pink flowering plant said to resemble baby's breath during a routine visit to the mountain. He is currently pursuing his doctorate in integrative biology. 

The significance of the find drew comparisons to the recent discovery of the Ivory-billed woodpecker in Arkansas earlier this year in April. The exact location of the flowering plant is, for now, being kept secret. Several botanists have confirmed it along with the nearly dozen or so other plants.

The property is being preserved by the Save Mount Diablo conservation group operating in the Mount Diablo State Park. 

View of Mount Diablo. Taken from Dinosaur Hill Park, above Pleasant hill. Photo by User:Leonard G.
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