Nine South Tahoe High students, three scientists and one conservation coordinator spent part of Saturday planting 300 yellow cress on the beach at Edgewood Tahoe.

Edgewood Companies is participating in a volunteer program called the Tahoe Yellow Cress Stewardship Program and has been assisting with inventory surveys since 1979.

Tyler Meyers and Jocelyn DeLeon on May 19 plant yellow cress. Photo/Provided

The endangered plant only grows in Lake Tahoe.

The students — Leighton Cook, Jocelyn DeLeon, Tyler Meyers, Sam Burba, Nicholas Brogna, Kayla Owens, Larissa Gloutak, Jera Barney, and Rebecca Wesson – are part of Generation Green Club,