List the protections provided to plants by the Endangered Species Act in a comma-separated list. Please make your answer a complete sentence. 
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By being placed on the Endangered Species List, the twistflower is almost guaranteed to survive, since the rate at which species’ declines have been stopped after being placed on the ESL is 99%, the highest of any such national conservation program worldwide.

This protection was also doled out to the prostrate milkweed, which received 661 acres of critical habitat protection. It is illegal to cut, damage, harvest, or transport either flower under federal law.

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“Protecting prostrate milkweed is a big deal for the monarch butterflies who lay their eggs on these plants as they fly through Texas after spending the winter in Mexico,” said Tierra Curry, a senior scientist at the Center for Biological Diversity.

Unlike the bracted twistflower, the milkweed is found at the moment exclusively in the terrain surrounding the banks of the Rio Grande, in Starr and Zapata counties.

Monarch populations in Mexico were counted as having increased several years in a row, vaulting the theory that it was simply a single boom year. Now, food resources like the Texas milkweed will be more valuable than ever.
The Endangered Species Act protects plants from being cut, damaged, harvested, or transported.