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Yellowstone Sulphur Flower

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Yellowstone National Park is a Biosphere Reserve home to phenomena of a supervolcano as well as many plant and animal life that is currently being protected by the National Park Service, an agency of the United States Department of the Interior. One of the many protected plants is the Eriogonum umbellatum var. Cladophorum, or better known as the Yellowstone Sulphur Flower.
Although several types of sulphur buckwheat live in the park, the Yellowstone Sulphur flower only resides in the Firehole River drainage. This flower is yellow in color with hairy, gray leaves. NPS (2017) found that the flower has adapted to life in barren areas, causing it to only live in the drainage. They also found that this flower is even capable of changing distributed

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