EXTINCT PLANT
SPECIES
It isn't surprising that the Earth has undergone significant
changes in its life after more than 4.5 billion years, especially in
the kinds of greenery. Here is a list of a few flowers and plants
that have vanished recently as well as over the period of billions
of years, possibly as a result of climate change, geological
changes, or human or animal meddling.
SILPHIUM
If you were to chance come across this flower, you may
think it was a daisy. The silphium resembles its yellow
daisy relative with its several tiny, long, yellow petals.
Since the flower went extinct in the first century B.C.,
people have not seen it.
FRANKLIN TREE
The Franklin Tree, which was once solely found in Georgia along
the Altamaha River, was found in the middle of the eighteenth
century and was given Benjamin Franklin's name right away.
However, the plant died extinct about 50 years after it was found.
Scientists assume that the local soil was ruined by chemicals from
nearby cotton plantations that flowed into the river, while the
precise cause of the plant's extinction is still unknown.
CRY VIOLET
When this lovely plant could no longer be found in the wild
by the mid-1930s and was fully extinct by the 1950s, there
were undoubtedly tears shed for it. The cry violet, which
was only found in France, went extinct because people
picked it quicker than they could plant it.
CAUSES
Deforestation and land use change are hence the primary
and direct causes of plant extinction, whereas pollution
and climate change are indirect (or probably partly direct)
factors
HOW TO PROTECT THEM?
We should educate ourselves and others about the importance
of plants in maintaining the ecosystem and biodiversity.
As a human we should know how to protect our environment
in general especially endangered species to avoid their
extinction.
We should also give them a place where they can expand their
growth more without too much interference from humans,