Introducing Introducing our new Center for Plant Conservation Team Member Ann-Cathrin Howard, Senior Administra...
Lost and Found in San Francisco In an all too common story, limited populations of plants continue to end up lost to urban developme...
Military Base Offers Safety for Rare Plants Sandwiched between the densely populated Orange and San Diego counties in Southern California is the...
March 2018 News In this month’s issue of Save Plants, we feature the rare plants that are found literally in our o...
A Decade-Long Search Uncovers Plant Hiding in Plain Sight—Climbing Holly-Fern in Urban Preserve The Climbing Holly-Fern, or Lomariopsis kunzeana, is very rare and found only in South Florida, Cuba...
Lonely George George is an endangered Florida semaphore cactus, Consolea corallicola, a prickly pear native to the...
Cross-Pollinating Preservation A thorny, deciduous shrub called Florida Zizphus (Zizphus celata) can only be found in two counties ...
Who’s Your Pollinator? Rappelling down cliffs on Kauai, sometimes suspended a thousand feet above the Pacific Ocean, botani...
What is Darwin’s “abominable mystery?” A problem that Charles Darwin called an “abominable mystery” was to determine how flowering plan...
February 2018 News Thank you as always for opening up another installment of Save Plants. This month, in honor of the r...
Update: Jennifer Possley From Jennifer Possley, MS, field biologist and Conservation Team leader at Fairchild Tropical Botani...
Catherine H. Beattie Fellowship Each year, The Garden Club of America (GCA) and the CPC together award the Catherine H. Beattie Fell...
January 2018 News In this month’s issue of Save Plants, we feature our much beloved and long-standing partner, The G...
December News 2017 In this month’s issue of SavePlants, we look back at an amazing year of accomplishments and succes...
Vickie Caraway to Retire Vickie Caraway has been a central figure in Hawaii Plant Conservation and sadly for us she is taking...
Hurricane Recovery Updates In early September, the high winds and storm surge from Hurricane Irma devastated The Kampong, the N...
Large Increase in National Collection After review of the collections records of CPC institutions in 2017, the number of plants in the Nat...