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Hunting for a threatened forget-me-not in the Rock and Pillar Range

A view of a rocky outcrop on top of a mountain at sunset.

For a few days in mid-January, Curator Botany Heidi Meudt was part of a team that conducted a survey of Myosotis umbrosa, a plant with the same threat status as the kākāpō: Threatened – Nationally Critical. The team spent three days in the Rock and Pillar Range in Otago to get a better understanding of where it is found and how big the population is. Read on to discover how they did this work and what they found.

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