ITHACA, N.Y. (WHCU) — Botanists at Cornell are protecting a plant.

The rare Leedy’s roseroot species is growing at Cascadilla Falls. The flower is considered federally threatened.

Director of Natural Areas Todd Bittner tells the Cornell Chronicle, a team of botanists will collect roseroot seeds at Seneca Lake to help keep the plant’s population alive.

Elsewhere at the university, police are looking for a suspect after a dorm fire.