Rare plant only found on the banks of the St. John River is downlisted from endangered to threatened

MAINE PUBLIC • May 9, 2023

After 45 years on the endangered species list, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is reclassifying a flowering plant known as the Furbish's Lousewort as threatened. The plant with fernlike leaves and yellow flowers only grows along the banks of the St. John River in Maine and New Brunswick, Canada. Tierra Curry, a senior scientist at the Center for Biological Diversity, says, “The plant is still here. We did something right."