Hackelia Venusta
''Hackelia venusta'' is a rare species of flowering plant in the Boraginaceae, borage family known by the common name showy stickseed, or lesser showy stickseed. It is Endemism, endemic to Washington (state), Washington state in the United States, where it is known from only one canyon in Chelan County, Washington, Chelan County. There is only one small population with a global distribution of less than one hectare.''Hackelia venusta''.
The Nature Conservancy. The plant was federally listed as an endangered species of the United States in 2002.USFWS
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Charles Piper
Charles Vancouver Piper (16 June 1867 – 11 February 1926) was an American botanist and agriculturalist. Born in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, he spent his youth in Seattle, Washington Territory and graduated from the University of Washington Territory in 1885. He taught botany and zoology in 1892 at the Washington Agricultural College (now Washington State University) in Pullman. He earned a master's degree in botany in 1900 from Harvard University. Piper compiled the first authoritative guides to flora in the northwestern United States. With his collaborator, R. Kent Beattie, he surveyed the Palouse area of southeastern Washington, and expanded the study to the entire state in 1906. That year, The Smithsonian Institution published his catalo''Flora of the State of Washington'' He also publishe''Flora of Southeast Washington and Adjacent Idaho''(1914) an''Flora of the Northwest Coast''(1915). These works established him as an authority on the plants of the northweste ...
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