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Photo of the week: The new flower of Salburua

The Ranunculus lingua is an aquatic plant that grows in wetlands and streams. It is a plant with large and yellow flowers. Although it is common in the wetlands of northern Europe and Asia, it is very rare to cross the Pyrenees and find it in the southern part of the mountain range. Researchers from Aranzadi, however, have found it for the first time in Álava. It was seen in Navarre 13 years ago, in the Laguna de Iza, but it has never been seen again. Therefore, it is possible that what has been found in the Salburua wetland is the only population in the Basque Country.

In Girona, a population was observed before 1947, but 50 years later, the plant was declared extinct. Now he reappears, this time in Salburua.

The Salburua wetland is a special place. In the same year that the Ranunculus lingua plant was declared extinct in the south of the Pyrenees, the entire Salburua wetland system was declared completely dried. After decades of drainage, they became agricultural soils in their entirety. Now, after three decades of Salburua recovery, the wetland is in full health, and perhaps it is no coincidence that the Ranunculus lingua was discovered. Aranzadi points out that it is a plant of high ecological value.