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      • ReOak
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      • Rare Plant Treasure Hunts
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      • 2022 Conference
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      • Getting Started
      • Design Basics
      • Bloom! California
      • Prepping and Planting
      • Digging Deeper
      • Garden Ambassadors
      • Gardening Webinars
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      • CNPS Inventory of Rare Plants
      • Rare Plant Ranking & Review
        • California Rare Plant Ranks
        • Rare Plant Status Review Forum
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      • Rare Plant Treasure Hunts
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  • Conservation

    Governor’s Biodiversity Actions Mark Unprecedented Call for Native Plant Protection

    October 4, 2018April 29, 2022
    The governor's actions are among the first to unambiguously emphasize the critical importance of saving California’s native plants.
  • Tejon Ranch, one of California's last and most significant native grasslands. Photo: Nancy Buck
    Conservation

    The Governor’s Biodiversity Initiative | Top Three Take-Aways

    September 28, 2018September 28, 2018
    The Governor's new Biodiversity Initiative is a victory for native plants and a important validation of CNPS work.
  • Rare plant botanist and CNPS member Toni Corelli volunteered her time and expertise to petition on behalf of the endangered coast yellow leptosiphon.
    Conservation

    California Protects New Endangered Species Thanks to Volunteer Botany Heroes

    April 25, 2018June 13, 2018
    The coast yellow leptosiphon and the Lassics lupine now have state endangered species protection, thanks in large part to two CNPS members.
  • News Releases

    California Native Plant Society Announces Naming Rights Auction for Rare Species

    January 23, 2018June 13, 2018
    For the first time in California, CNPS auctions off a rare chance to name a newly described California native plant.
  • Plant Science

    Rare Plants Identified for 2018 Seed Collection Efforts

    January 15, 2018September 28, 2018
    CNPS works in the California Plant Rescue project, a statewide coalition of nonprofit botanic organizations. They collect California’s rare and threatened species.
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    California Native Plant Society Signs Historic Settlement on Newhall Ranch Project

    September 26, 2017June 13, 2018
    CNPS has settled a long-running dispute over the Newhall Ranch development project in northwestern Los Angeles County.
  • Calochortus plumeria
    Plant Science

    Rare Plant Treasure Hunt Update: the CNPS De-Extinction Project

    May 31, 2017April 30, 2018
    In early May, a team from the Rare Plant Program went down into the urban wilds of the greater Los Angeles area in search of plants presumed to be extinct.
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    New advancements of the Online Inventory, 8th Edition

    April 7, 2017August 17, 2017
    The most common requests from users are now fulfilled in this exciting new version of the Online Rare Plant Inventory.
  • Calochortus plumeria
    Plant Science

    CNPS De-Extinction Project

    March 30, 2017March 28, 2018
    In early May, a team from the Rare Plant Program went down into the urban wilds of the greater Los Angeles area in search of plants presumed to be extinct.
  • Rare plant botanist and CNPS member Toni Corelli volunteered her time and expertise to petition on behalf of the endangered coast yellow leptosiphon.
    Conservation

    A New Endangered Species Candidate: Coast Yellow Leptosiphon

    January 27, 2017June 13, 2018
    Coast yellow leptosiphon (Leptosiphon croceus) is an endangered species limited to less than 500 plants clinging to a cliff edge in San Mateo County.
  • Arctostaphylos refugioenesis
    Plant Science

    Revisiting a Rare Plant Population Just in Time

    January 27, 2017March 26, 2018
    After conducting a rare plant survey near Santa Ynez in June of 2016, I took the opportunity to revisit several of the occurrences of Refugio Manzanita.
  • Conservation

    Saving the Lassics Lupine

    September 30, 2016April 25, 2018
    Lassics lupine (Lupinus constancei) is a species endemic to just four acres in the the Lassics Mountains in eastern Humboldt County that is on the brink of extinction.
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