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Beth Leger, left, a plant ecologist at the University of Nevada, Reno, and her graduate assistant Jamey McClinton, right, look at hundreds of the tiny Tiehm's buckwheat that has sprouted at a campus greenhouse in this photo taken on Feb. 10, 2020 in Reno, Nevada. An Australian mining company says its pursuit of a huge lithium deposit in Nevada is critical to accelerating the manufacture of electric vehicles and reducing greenhouse gases. Opponents argue the mine can't be built without causing the extinction of the only known native population of the rare desert wildflower, Tiehm's buckwheat. (AP Photo/Scott Sonner)

Beth Leger, left, a plant ecologist at the University of Nevada, Reno, and her graduate assistant Jamey McClinton, right, look at hundreds of the tiny Tiehm's buckwheat that has sprouted at a campus greenhouse in this photo taken on Feb. 10, 2020 in Reno, Nevada. An Australian mining company says its pursuit of a huge lithium deposit in Nevada is critical to accelerating the manufacture of electric vehicles and reducing greenhouse gases. Opponents argue the mine can't be bu…

March 7, 2020

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RENO, Nev. (AP) — The rare Tiehm's buckwheat stands less than a foot tall (30 centimeters) in Nevada's rocky high desert, its thin, leafless stems adorned with tiny yellow flowers in spring.