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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...

Photo by Jim Locklear of his friend Erik with hoopvine
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...

In this month’s issue of Save Plants, we tackle the notion of what it means to be a “weed.” ...

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...

Fertile frond (foreground) and sterile fronds. Note how dark the habitat is photo credit: Jennifer Possley
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...

Image of cactus in bloom
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 ...

Alula
Who’s Your Pollinator?

Rappelling down cliffs on Kauai, sometimes suspended a thousand feet above the Pacific Ocean, botani...

Flower and ovule morphogenesis in Nymphaea thermarum. Stages in floral biology, gynoecium development and ovule morphogenesis are depicted at 12, 6, 2 and 1 days before anthesis, as well as the first and second day of anthesis.
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...

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