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Bristlecone pine (Pinus longaeva)
Seed Collection in a Land of Extremes

People thought Cheryl Birker must be crazy when she told them she was going to be doing a 14-mile hi...

Leedy’s Roseroot (Rhodiola integrifolia ssp. leedyi)
November 2020 News

Landscapes under our care ranging in scale from small gardens to large public landscapes and vast na...

Todd Bittner
Conservation Champion: Todd Bittner

Charged with the stewardship of 3,600 acres of breath-taking beautiful natural areas at Cornell Bota...

Golden Paintbrush restoration
As Seen on CPC’s Rare Plant Academy – Reintroduction

Reintroductions, like other land management activities, require design and planning for successful i...

Water Wise Border in the garden.
Adaptive, Sustainable Options for Waterwise Utahans Red Butte Garden

Dramatic curving stone walls … transform the hillside into a sculptural composition of vegetation,...

A beautiful place for children to walk
Ecology and Design for Houston’s Memorial Park Nelson Byrd Woltz Landscape Architects

Not too long ago, native aggressive yaupon holly thickly overgrew soggy ground in the Eastern Glades...

Photo of the reserve. The reserve includes formal designed plant communities.
Restoring Ozark Landscapes at Shaw’s Nature Reserve Missouri Botanical Garden

It’s surprising how much work goes into managing ‘natural’ lands. Removing invasive plants, re...

Castilleja mendocinencis on the bluffs in Mendocino
October 2020 News

The CPC National Meeting has always been a centerpiece of our plant conservation work and the fine i...

Dr. Johnny Randall attends CPC 2020 National Meeting remotely
A National Meeting in a New Setting

The CPC National Meeting brings plant conservationists together to share their conservation work and...

Jennifer Ramp Neale is the 2020 Conservation Champion
Conservation Champion: Jennifer Ramp Neale

In honor of her commitment to the conservation of the flora of the United States, it is our pleasure...

Sarrecenia with spider web
Capturing the Beauty and Wonder of Plants

Rare is the camera – or phone – amongst botanists that is not filled with plant photos and lands...

Creating a video with an iPhone
Meeting Content & Events

With pre-recorded sessions and audio-visual conferencing technologies at the forefront of this yearâ...

Wild Population Conservation of Rare Plants – Then and Now

It was nearly 20 years ago that Hong Liu, Ph.D., was awarded the Catherine H. Beattie Fellowship....

Mike Kunz monitoring Astragalus michauxii.
Reproductive Ecology of Sandhills Milkvetch

I have had the privilege to continue my work at the North Carolina Botanical Garden (NCBG), while pu...

Conservation Champion Wendy Gibble
Conservation Champion: Wendy Gibble

Sharing experiences with rare plants has become a way of life for Wendy Gibble, our Conservation Cha...

Seed Collections and Lifespans: How Much Can a Population Give?

Catherine H. Beattie was an outstanding floral arranger and gardener devoted to the preservation of ...

Yellow owl’s clover (Triphysaria versicolor ssp. versicolor) found during a survey in coastal San Mateo county. Photo credit: Lucy Ferneyhough, courtesy of University of California Santa Cruz Arboretum.
Gaining Experience and Experiences in the Interactive Ecology Course

The fall of 2018 found Brett Hall winding down the steep cliffs to a fairly secluded beach with fell...

Astragalus michauxii image by M. Kunz
September 2020 News

Teaching and learning have reciprocal benefits that form ripples of impact for the benefit of rare p...

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