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Astragalus anserinus, also called the Goose Creek milkvetch, is a member of the genus Astragalus that is listed as a candidate species under the Endangered Species Act. It grows in a 10-square-mile (26 km2) area of the Goose Watershed of the Upper Snake Basin in Idaho, Nevada and Utah.

Phacelia argillacea is a rare species of flowering plant known by the common names clay phacelia and Atwood's phacelia. It is endemic to Utah in the United States, where it is known only from one canyon in Utah County. It is "one of Utah's most endangered species"; it is "one of the nation's rarest plants" and is federally listed as an endangered species of the United States. This plant is an annual herb growing up to 36 to 40 centimeters in height. It has a rosette of leaves around the base of the stem. The leaf blades are oblong with deep lobes along the edges, and measure up to 5

Sphaeralcea gierischii, Gierisch's globemallow or Gierisch mallow, is an endangered species of flowering plant in the mallow family, Malvaceae. It is native to the western United States, where it is known only from Utah and Arizona. It was described in 2002.

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Heterotheca jonesii, known by the common name Jones's goldenaster, is a rare North American species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae. It has been found in the southern part of the state of Utah in the United States.

Calochortus ciscoensis is a North American species of flowering plants in the lily family first described for modern science in 2008. It was originally described as only occurring only in eastern Utah (Uintah, Duchesne, and Grand Counties) but has since also been found in Mesa County, Colorado). Calochortus ciscoensis is a bulb-forming perennial herb, each bulb producing several stalks up to 40 cm tall. Flowers range from white to pink. It typically lacks, or has a significantly reduced, chevron as compared to Calochortus nuttalli with which it is closely allied and may be confused. Unlike C.

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Aquilegia desolaticola, the desolation columbine or Desolation Canyon columbine, is a perennial species of flowering plant in the family Ranunculaceae, endemic to Utah.

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Phacelia mammillarensis, common name Nipple Beach phacelia, is a plant species native to Kane County, Utah. Type locale there, as recorded on the herbarium label, is about 9.6 km (6 miles) east of Glen Canyon City. Phacelia mammillarensis is an annual herb with simple oblong to lanceolate leaves up to 7 mm (0.3 inches) long, covered with small glandular hairs. Inflorescences are terminal and lateral, each in the shape of a "scorpoid cyme", i.e. curled in a spiral like a scorpion's tail or like a half-open fiddlehead fern. Flowers are yellow to white.

Erigeron cavernensis is a North American species of flowering plants in the family Asteraceae known by the common name lone fleabane. It has been found only in the State of Nevada in the western United States, on ridges, cliff faces, and rocky outcrops at high elevations in the mountains of Nye and White Pine Counties. Erigeron cavernensis is a very small perennial herb up rarely more than 6 cm (2.4 inches) tall, forming clumps of many individuals close together. Most of the leaves are low and close to the ground. Each stem produces only one flower head, with 12–24 white, pink or lavender ray

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Aquilegia holmgrenii, common name Noel's columbine, is a perennial flowering plant in the family Ranunculaceae, endemic to Utah.

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Xylorhiza cronquistii, common name Cronquist's woody-aster, is a plant species endemic to the Kaiparowits Plateau in Grand Staircase–Escalante National Monument in Kane County, Utah at elevations of 1900–2100 m. Xylorhiza cronquistii is a subshrub up to 30 cm tall. Leaves are narrowly lanceolate, sometimes with small spines along the margins. Flowers are borne in heads containing 13-17 white ray flowers plus some yellow disc flowers.

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