A southern Utah flower that a quarter-century ago numbered just seven plants is now thriving to the point that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service will remove it from the list of threatened and endangered species.

The Maguire daisy, which grows on high sandstone plateaus in the San Rafael Swell and in Capitol Reef National Park’s Waterpocket Fold, numbers 163,000 plants in Emery, Wayne and Garfield counties after 25 years of habitat protections, the agency said in its delisting announcement Tuesday. It becomes the 21st species successfully recovered under the Endangered Species Act.

The plant is a small, low-lying member of the sunflower family with a brushy bunch of wooden stems and dime-size flowers with white or pinkish-white petals. Its largest populations are on sandstone mesas between 6,000 and 7,000 feet in elevation, although smaller populations exist in lower canyons. It was first listed as endangered in 1985 and downlisted to threatened in 1996.

A photo of the flower and a status report are available at http://www.fws.gov/mountain-prairie/species/plants/maguiredaisy/.