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Rare Plant Painter

Meet a Chicago artist on a personal crusade to paint and preserve 200 rare native plants.

06/10/2014 | Rating NR

Chicago Tonight

Rare Plant Painter

Clip: 6/10/2014 | 6m 5sVideo has Closed Captions

Meet a Chicago artist on a personal crusade to paint and preserve 200 rare native plants.

When Heeyoung Kim moved here from Korea, she expected to find vast Midwestern prairies. When she learned that prairie and woodland ecosystems were endangered, she launched a personal crusade to paint and preserve 200 rare native plants. View a slideshow of some of the plants Heeyoung sketched and painted.

06/10/2014 | Rating NR

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