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Winter isn’t when most people expect to go out looking for rare plants. Yet, for the past four years in Georgia, I’ve spent cold mornings trekking across bare rock, datasheets in hand and HotHands in pocket. I’m searching for a tiny, rare plant that only grows in the shallow pools atop solid granite outcrops. Snorkelwort,


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