Rare South Texas Plant Proposed for Listing Under Endangered Species Act

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is announcing a proposal to list bushy whitlow-wort, an herbaceous perennial plant from South Texas, as an endangered species under the Endangered Species Act.Bushy whitlow-wort is one of 110 species in the genus Paronychia, which gets its name from the disease of the fingernails which it was once thought to cure. The long-lived, woody-based species flowers from…