Plant growing in Serpentine soils (IMAGE)

Washington State University

Plant growing in Serpentine soils

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A Native Hill Lotus plant (Acmisponbrachycarpus) growing happily in toxic serpentine soil due to support from its nitrogen fixing rhizobia bacteria symbionts. Photo taken at the Donald and Sylvia McLaughlin Natural Reserv in California. 

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Angeliqua Montoya, Washington State University

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