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How a native plant ended up on reality TV, and why it's at risk

  • Written by Kathryn M. Flinn, Assistant Professor of Biology, Baldwin Wallace University
imageA valuable harvestPriya Jaishankar/Flickr, CC BY-NDimageAmerican ginseng about to flower, spring 2016.Photo by C.C. Flinn

In one of television’s more bizarre recent offerings, the History Channel show “Appalachian Outlaws” follows a band of West Virginians as they hunt rugged forests for American ginseng, a medicinal root worth...

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