ROANOKE, Va. (AP) — In the quiet, nerdy world of botany, Virginia has just made a big splash.

For the past 250 years, the state has not taken inventory of its vast array of established plant life, relying instead on a manual written in Latin in 1762 that excluded territory west of the Blue Ridge Mountains simply because botanists couldn’t get there.

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