UW News
Richard Olmstead
November 24, 2020
Study shows plant extinction is more common than previously realized
![A photograph of a museum specimen of a now-extinct plant species.](https://uw-s3-cdn.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2020/11/24105237/Astragalus-kentrophyta-var.-douglasii_Courtesy-NY-Botanic-Gardens-150x150.jpg)
A new study reveals that 65 plant species have gone extinct in the continental United States and Canada since European settlement, more extinctions than any previous scientific study has ever documented.