A Weed or Not a Weed, That is The Question Test your skills: determine which plants are considered weeds or invasives and which are rare plants...
To Be, or Not to Be, a Weed This month we are looking at plants that are endangered but could be mistaken for “weeds.” Both ...
Save Plants: April 2018 Newsletter In this month’s issue of Save Plants, we tackle the notion of what it means to be a “weed.” T...
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...