The EPIC Endemics
In the misty landscape of Oregon’s famous, Columbia River Gorge, a place where many tourists come to see a amazing concentration of high waterfalls, sits and extraordinary plant population.
The Oneonta gorge is home to a handful of “endemic” plants, and has been classified a “botanical area” by the USFS. Endemic plants are those that grow in one geographic location, and NOWHERE ELSE IN THE WORLD!
For a list of these epic plants, click here.
Know the plants around you! Especially the EPIC ones!
Resources:
List of plants endemic to the gorge
http://www.columbiarivergorge.info/flowers.html
Endemic-definition
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/endemic
Flower resource –Pacific Northwest
http://www.pnwflowers.com/