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Supporting Our Community of Practice Through Plant Sponsorships

The Center for Plant Conservation's plant sponsorship program is an essential component of our work ...

Screen shot of Rare Plant Academy forums.

As Seen on CPC’s Rare Plant Academy: Community Forum

The Center for Plant Conservation advances work to Save Plants by bringing together a world-class ne...

Safeguarding the Coastal Sage Scrub Oak

From sandstone cliffs along the ocean to grooves between inland hills, life flourishes where the coa...

Image of Installation view of Art in Bloom. Robert Indiana (American, 1928–2018), LOVE, 1970, Cor-ten steel, 144 × 144 × 72 in. Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields, Gift of the Friends of the Indianapolis Museum of Art in memory of Henry F. DeBoest. Restoration was made possible by Patricia J. and James E. LaCrosse, 75.174 © Morgan Art Foundation / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.

Beyond Beauty: Blending Art and Nature to Engage

Plants are beautiful and inspiring. They feature prominently on museum walls everywhere, from colorf...

Image of Bloodroot (Sanguinaria canadensis), a member of the poppy family, is one of the earliest flowering spring ephemerals in the rich deciduous woods of the southeast.

The Healing Power of Plants

A frequent argument for the conservation of biodiversity is the need to protect a cure for cancer, o...

Image of ZNE Field Cons. Dept. staff standing amidst 5 acres of wildflowers and grasses native to the northeastern US that they planted, together with staff of Hutchins Farm, at a Blanding’s turtle nesting site on unused agricultural land. In bloom is primarily oxeye sunflower (Heliopsis helianthoides). Photo: Paul Rezendes.

Welcome to CPC: Zoo New England

Our network is growing, and with it grows our ability to save rare and endangered plants from extinc...

Image of a forest popoulation of Indian pink (Spigelia marilandica).

June 2021 News

This month we explore the many reasons why humans should Save Plants. From their sheer beauty to the...

Image of Carolyn Schmitz & Tony Schmitz walking in the desert near Phoenix, Arizona, 1965.

Conservation Champions: Carolyn Schmitz and Tony Schmitz

Art and a deep love of nature run in the Schmitz family. Carolyn Schmitz, a Prescott, Arizona-based ...

Image of Lindos – panoramic view of St. Paul bay with acropolis of Lindos in background (Rhodes, Greece)

Garden of the Gods: A Springtime Voyage to the Greek Islands with CPC

Plants have been important to humans since time immemorial. Woven into everyday life, plants were an...

Image of Peggy Olwell, Plant Conservation & Restoration Program Lead for the National Office of Bureau of Land Management.

National Meeting Recap

Dr. Joyce Maschinski, CPC President & CEO, opened this year’s meeting with exciting updates from t...

As Seen on CPC’s Rare Plant Academy – Beta Testing

It is beta-testing time! Does the idea of helping to build a better website for our plant conservati...

Image of Emma Neigel in the field collecting a cutting of red milkweed (Asclepias rubra) as part of an effort to maintain a safeguarding ex situ collection at Atlanta Botanical Garden.

State of the CPC

Dr. Joyce Maschinski, CPC President & CEO, opened this year’s meeting with exciting updates from t...

Image of Naomi Fraga, Rancho Santa Ana Botanical Garden Director of Conservation Programs. Photo courtesy of Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden

Star Award: Naomi Fraga

In recognition of her outstanding conservation and advocacy efforts on behalf of the rare plants of ...

Image of Hoosier Pass ipomopsis (Ipomopsis globularis) in its alpine habitat.

May 2021 Newsletter

Even when the CPC network meets virtually, there is great comradery and enthusiasm for our collectiv...

Screenshot from "Vascular Plant Extinction in the Continental United States and Canada" video.

As Seen on CPC’s Rare Plant Academy – Conservation Across Borders

The human world is full of borders –borders between countries, states, land-managing entities, and...

Image of a photographic exhibition endorsed by the CSSG helped raise awareness of the impacts of poaching cacti - specifically Copiapoa - on populations and ecosystems.

Copiapoa Cacti

One focus of the Cactus and Succulent Plants Specialist Group has been Copiapoa, a genus of cacti fo...

Image of the endangered Barrens ground willow (Salix jejuna).

Welcome to CPC | Memorial University of Newfoundland Botanical Garden

The Center for Plant Conservation’s mission is to save plants. Its focus has long been on the plan...

Image of Long's rockcress (Braya longii).

Rockcress Recovery in the Not-so-barren Limestone Barrens

Embraced by the icy North Atlantic Ocean and scoured by high winds, the limestone barrens of Newfoun...