{"id":1179,"date":"2023-11-14T23:03:05","date_gmt":"2023-11-14T23:03:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.uscupstate.edu\/servicestories\/?p=1179"},"modified":"2023-11-27T18:28:15","modified_gmt":"2023-11-27T18:28:15","slug":"cleanup-day-recap-november-6th-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uscupstate.edu\/servicestories\/cleanup-day-recap-november-6th-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"Cleanup Day Recap: November 6th, 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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On Monday, November 6th, we had yet another great cleanup day with biology instructor Julie Smoak and her students.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

During their work time, the group made an awesome discovery: an extremely rare plant, the dwarf-flowered heartleaf, which makes its home only on a small swath of land near the border of North and South Carolina!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

From a post<\/a> on SPACE’s Instagram page, Deb Stevens describes finding the plant:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“During one of our volunteer service days at the Upper Chinquapin Greenway with a group of students from\u00a0@usc_upstate<\/a>\u00a0, we uncovered a small, but exciting find – a little patch of the rare and endangered, dwarf-flowered heartleaf!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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“Dwarf-flowered heartleaf, or Hexastylis naniflora, is the only federally protected endangered plant species listed in the Upstate. We had seen notes that dwarf-flowered heartleaf had been spotted at the Upper Chinquapin Greenway in the 90s, but we haven’t seen it with our own eyes in many years… until recently!”<\/p>\n<\/div>

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Our efforts to clean up and preserve the Upper Chinquapin Greenway will help to make sure that the dwarf-flowered heartleaf can continue to thrive in Spartanburg.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What a cool way to end one of the last greenway cleanup days of the semester! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Other announcements…<\/strong><\/em><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Unfortunately, our Friday 11\/10 cleanup was postponed due to rain. Our last cleanup is coming up on December 1st, and we have a cool announcement to share about it, so keep your eye out!!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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