Keeping Up With Conservation: Creating an “Ark” for Rare Plants

The Rare Plant Conservation Program curates a collection of Florida’s rare plant species for the purpose of preserving the species as they are being lost to development and declining habitat in the wild. Maintained at Bok Tower Gardens as part of the Center for Plant Conservation (saveplants.org), this National Collection represents the genetic diversity remaining […]

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Keeping Up With Conservation: Florida Jointweed

Rare plant conservation involves a great deal of preliminary work. Prior to introducing a new population in the wild, for example, it can take months to study the habitat requirements, seed biology, and basic lifecycle and demographics of an unfamiliar species, before knowing how best to propagate and transplant plants. Embarking on seed collection for

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Keeping Up with Conservation: Ocklawaha Clasping Warea Project

As part of an ongoing partnership with Duke Energy, Bok Tower Gardens’ Rare Plant Conservation Program has committed a portion of the conservation efforts for Clasping warea, Warea amplexifolia, towards an outreach program meant for not only the preservation of the remaining population’s genetic integrity, but also for the involvement of the area’s residents. This

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Catching Up With Conservation: Saving Savannas Mint

On October 25th, The Rare Plant Conservation Program met with Florida Department of Environmental Protection (FDEP) staff and Americorp volunteers at Savannas Preserve State Park in Port St. Lucie for the annual fall monitoring of the endangered Savannas Mint. Savannas Mint (Dicerandra immaculata var. savannarum) was historically known from one small natural population on private

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