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...
January News 2021 It’s a New Year and CPC has NEW works to share! We welcome you to our NEW-ly designed website, www...
As Seen on CPC’s Rare Plant Academy: Horticulture Best Practices for Rare Plants The CPC Best Practice Guidelines expanded this month with the addition of Horticulture Best Practice...
Growing a Rare Shrub and a Program San Diego Botanic Garden (SDBG) has long displayed rare and native plants and supported conservation...
Metacollections and Collaborations Botanic gardens have a long history of transferring seeds, pollen, and plants from one garden to ano...
Where Rare Plants are Free to Flourish In the hills above Berkeley, a California native plant sanctuary nurtures rare species in a creative...
Conservation Champion: Christy Powell Christy Powell, our January Conservation Champion, is a conservation horticulturist extraordinaire! ...
As Seen on CPC’s Rare Plant Academy: Making Videos With a Smart Phone In adapting to the circumstances of the COVID-19 pandemic, the power of remote meeting and communica...
