Storyboard contributed by: Jason Ligon, Atlanta Botanical Garden Making conservation seed collections often require preliminary field visits to a rare plant population prior to collection, known as site assessments. In this video, the team at Atlanta Botanical Garden outlines their methods for assessing plant populations to ensure that the collection contains representative genetic diversity without […]
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What Are You Willing To Sacrifice?
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Euphorbia deltoidea ssp. adherens
Fairchild biologists tie tiny organza bags to developing seedheads on Goulds wedge sandmat (Euphorbia deltoidea ssp. adherens). […]
Not An Early Riser
West’s Flax (Linum westii Rogers) has adorable little yellow flowers that only open in the evening so surveys are best done in the afternoon, perfect for folks who are not early risers. […]
Paper-like Whitlow-wort – Enjoy It While It Lasts
Paronychia chartacea var. minima) in full bloom along the margin of a karst lake, formed by the collapse of a cave. […]
Pinewoods Aster In the Bag
Eurybia spinulosa […]
Small but Mighty Pinewoods Aster
Eurybia spinulosa in flower during the site assessment in early August. […]
Baker’s Tickseed
Coreopsis bakeri, Baker’s tickseed, flower with a tumbling flower beetle (Family: Mordellidae) visitor. […]
As Seen on CPC’s Rare Plant Academy: All in the Family: The Case for Collecting by Maternal Lines

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What to Know Before You Go: Maximizing Genetic Diversity in Seed Collections

The goal of any conservation seed collection is to capture the genetic diversity represented within the target population and conserve it ex-situ. But it’s not always as simple as it sounds. Every population of every plant species is different. In this video we’ll discuss how we can use a species’ natural history to guide our […]
The maturing seeds of Oxypolis canbyi
The maturing seeds of Oxypolis canbyi, which here turned out to me largely empty. […]
Mature seeds of Geum geniculatum (bent avens).
Mature seeds of Geum geniculatum (bent avens). […]
Ecologist Mike Kunz (NCBG) collects seeds of Sand Myrtle at Grandfather Mountain, NC.
Ecologist Mike Kunz (NCBG) collects seeds of Sand Myrtle at Grandfather Mountain, NC. […]
Details of Hairy-peduncled Beakrush
Collected seeds of a single maternal line of Rhynchospora crinipes as seen through the microscope’s lens, […]
NCBG intern Ashley Boyette collects seeds of Sand Myrtle for the IMLS seed longevity project. […]
Capsules of Sand Myrtle […]
Liatris gholsonii in full bloom
Liatris gholsonii in flower during the initial Site Assessment to estimate from how many maternal lines seeds will be collected at the time of Seed Collection. […]
Gholson’s blazingstar in bud
Gholson’s blazingstar in bud […]