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| | Natural Resources: Native Biodiversity (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18) |
 | | But it is known that 179 native vascular plant species in Waterton Lakes are rare throughout Alberta, 22 are found nowhere else in Alberta, and two are found nowhere else in Canada. |
 | | About 30 of the native vascular plant species that grow in Glacier are found only in the Crown of the Continent Ecosystem portion of northwestern Montana, northern Idaho, southern Alberta, and southeastern British Columbia. |
 | | As one example, non-native plants such as spotted knapweed, oxeye daisy, leafy spurge, Canada thistle, and sulphur cinquefoil are out-competing native species. |
| npca.org /across_the_nation/park_pulse/glacier/assessment/native.asp (1897 words) |
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