Subscribe Sign up to receive new posts by email. Email Subscribe Search Categories Call for Data (10) Contributor Spotlight (34) Education and Awareness (61) General (35) Monthly Updates (9) Partner Spotlight (2) Quarterly Updates (24) Semiannual Updates (3) Taxon of the week (13) Yearly review (4) CNDDB News Blog All CNDDB Blog Posts Lost grass species rediscovered in Southern California July 23, 2020 Photo credit: Margie Mulligan (CC BY-NC 4.0) via iNaturalist Earlier this year, a grass species thought to be extinct was rediscovered. Prairie false oat (Sphenopholis interrupta ssp. californica) was previously only known from two locations in Baja California, Mexico from the 1880s. It was rediscovered near Carlsbad, California by Jessie Vinje (with the Conservation Biology Institute) and Margie Mulligan (with the San Diego Natural History Museum) while doing population monitoring for San Diego thorn-mint (Acanthomintha ilicifolia). See this news article from the Conservation Biology Institute for additional information about this exciting discovery! Categories: Education and Awareness Tagged: