Rare flower wiped out in southern England in record heat and drought

In 2022, when temperatures in the UK soared to 40C for the first time on record amid an extremely hot, dry summer, field gentian populations crashed for the first time across all known sites in the south of England, and went extinct at a county-level in Devon.

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