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UCBG Horticulturists onsite for critical collection care.
Field Conservation in the Time of COVID-19

Working from home is all well and good for many conservation tasks. But rare plants are found in the...

June News 2020

Since mid-March 2020, many of us have been secluded in an effort to suppress the COVID-19 contagion....

Photo of Michael's rein orchid
As Seen on CPC’s Rare Plant Academy – Piperia Orchid Storage

CPC’s Rare Plant Academy is one of the tools CPC uses to connect plant conservationists, amplifyin...

Photo of Dr. Kristin Haskins, Executive Director, The Arboretum at Flagstaff
Conservation Champion: Kristin Haskins, Ph.D.

Some people just can’t help it, they are natural born leaders. In a group where a job has been la...

Eula Whitehouse’s camera.
Eula Whitehouse and the Cryptogams

A gifted artist and well-rounded scientist, Dr. Eula Whitehouse was an incredibly accomplished botan...

Mycology research near the Hall Valley Campground, with Andrew Wilson collecting.
Entangled by Rocky Mountain Fungi

Mycological and botanical research at Denver Botanic Gardens mirror each other and both will be movi...

A typical branch covered with lichens, including Ramalina culbersoniorum and Myelochroa galbina. Fruticose lichens like Ramalina have been greatly impacted by air pollution and habitat fragmentation.
Disappearing Lichens and a Southern Appalachian Stronghold

Our April newsletter offered a look at the work of CPC Participating Institutions beyond flowering p...

Lichen coloration is primarily due to pigments produced in their outer layers and which serve many functions, including sunscreening. This orange species, Xanthomendoza hasseana, is rare in the southern Appalachians where it grows on canopy branches in old-growth forests.
May 2020 News

We join colleagues around the world in celebration of the 15th annual Endangered Species Day, a day ...

In Memoriam

It is with a sad heart that we share that former Center for Plant Conservation Trustee, Erica Leisen...

Photo of Omar Monsegur-Rivera, USFWS, Caribbean Ecological Services Field Office
Conservation Champion: Omar Monsegur-Rivera

The Isle of Enchantment has many treasures. Among them is our Conservation Champion for April 2020, ...

The Atlanta Botanical Garden team collects data on surviving trees, between 35 and 100 cm tall, some just missing disaster from 2018’s Hurricane Michael.
Cones and Clones to Save Florida Torreya

Two hundred years ago, the limestone bluffs and ravines of the Apalachicola River in Georgia and the...

2014 fern survey at Silla de Calderon.
Searching for Ferns

Ferns abound on the Island of Enchantment – Puerto Rico. The U.S. territory is home to many specie...

Micronesian cycad (Cycas micronesica), growing in Guam.
April 2020 News

During this unprecedented time of sequestration and working from our homes, it is abundantly clear h...

Micronesian cycad (Cycas micronesica), growing in Guam.
Saving Micronesian Cycad with Vital Collections

Micronesian cycad (Cycas micronesica), or fadang as it is sometimes called on Guam, is a large tree-...

Ohio. Running buffalo clover in bloom.
March News 2020

Today we have the pleasure of sharing good news about the rediscovery of plants once thought to be e...

Wes Knapp
Conservation Champion: Wes Knapp

Wes Knapp is leading an important effort to assess plant extinction in North America north of Mexico...

Recovering Bradshaw’s Desert Parsley

Bradshaw’s desert parsley (Lomatium bradshawii) is a lovely member of the carrot family that may s...

Some of the Kentucky-bound plants grown by CREW went to property owned by the Eastern Kentucky University – where the CREW team was able to participate in a 2012 outplanting effort.
Clovers on the Rebound

Not long ago, running buffalo clover (Trifolium stoloniferum) was thought by many to be extinct. Yet...

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