Washington students work for state cactus
Discovery Lab students testify remotely before the Washington Legislature in support of designating Pediocactus nigrispinus Washington’s state cactus.
COURTESY PHOTO/DISCOVERY LAB
Pediocactus nigrispinus, also known as the Columbia Plateau cactus, the snowball cactus and the hedgehog cactus, grows in the fragmented shrub-steppe of central Washington.
OLYMPIA — The Washington State Legislature started the session with a prickly subject.
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