Copiapoa Cacti One focus of the Cactus and Succulent Plants Specialist Group has been Copiapoa, a genus of cacti fo...
Welcome to CPC | Memorial University of Newfoundland Botanical Garden The Center for Plant Conservation’s mission is to save plants. Its focus has long been on the plan...
Rockcress Recovery in the Not-so-barren Limestone Barrens Embraced by the icy North Atlantic Ocean and scoured by high winds, the limestone barrens of Newfoun...
Conservation Champion: Sula Vanderplank When did you first fall in love with plants? I think I fell in love with plants as a child....I g...
A Specialist Group’s Home | Desert Botanical Garden When Jael Wolf was hired by theDesert Botanical Garden (DBG) to serve as the Programme Officer for t...
April News 2021 As rare plant lovers, we associate many of our favorite plants with special places. These special pl...
As Seen on Rare Plant Academy: Conserving ‘Ohi’a At the 2018 National Meeting, Seana Walsh of National Tropical Botanic Garden shared the ambitious p...
The Lone Population on a Slippery Slope Though showy stickseed may be adapted to the loose-soiled and steep environment of Washington’s Ok...
Conservation Champion: Anna Strong Working for a state Natural Heritage Program gives a person good perspective about rarity in a state...
March News 2021 In this month’s Save Plants, we explore the nature of rarity and give examples of our participatin...
CPC National Meeting Registration Now Open! We welcome you to attend our second virtual installment of the CPC National Meeting...
A Carnivorous Ambassador A rare treat greets scout troops guided by Carrie Radcliffe on lands managed by the Nature Conservan...
What Makes a Plant Rare? The Center for Plant Conservation works to save plants –specifically rare plants. In 1981, Deborah...
February News 2021 In CPC’s early years, our knowledge of seed biology was not what it is today. We assumed that most...
Conservation Champion: Lisa Hill In the Biophysics Lab at the National Center for Genetic Resources Preservation, you may see Lisa Hi...
A Study for the Ages Seed banking is promoted as an amazing conservation tool, in part, because of the impressive longevi...
Reaping what we’ve sown: Using long-term seed collections for novel seed conservation research Working with the CPC network over the past five years has opened my eyes to many conservation truths...
As Seen on CPC’s Rare Plant Academy – Seed Longevity of Alpine Species During CPC’s 2020 National Meeting, Alex Seglias of Denver Botanic Garden presented her work exami...
