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California Native Plant Society was founded in 1965 by professional botanists and grassroots activists who, after saving an important native plant garden in Berkeley's Tilden Regional Park, were inspired to create an ongoing organization with the mission to save and promote the native plants of California.
A 2001 study by the California Native Plant Society estimated 6,300 native plants. These estimates continue to change over time. [2] Of California's total plant population, 2,153 species, subspecies, and varieties are endemic and native to California alone, according to the 1993 Jepson Manual study. [4]
Environmentalist Aaron Echols, conservation chair of the California Native Plant Society's Riverside/San Bernardino chapter, walks near the Palmer's oak. The tree is estimated to be 13,000 to ...
The CNPS Inventory of Rare and Endangered Plants of California is a botanical online database providing information on rare, threatened, and endangered California native plants. [1] [2] It is sponsored by the California Native Plant Society (CNPS). [2]
Jim Wadsworth / California Native Plant Society / Flickr. Impacts of Non-Native and Invasive Plants. To those not aware, non-native plants, and invasives (which is what non-natives are called ...
California is in one of the world’s 36 biodiversity hot spots and is home to more than 6,000 types of native plants, including hundreds of wildflower species. Only a few other places on Earth ...
(Aaron Echols / California Native Plant Society) An Inland Empire city has approved a development project 450 feet away from the third oldest known living organism in the world — a sprawling, ...
HBG is a member of the American Public Gardens Association, the American Rhododendron Society, and the American Horticultural Society Reciprocal Admission program. [5] [6] HBG is listed by the California Native Plant Society as one of the 17 California gardens with notable California native plant collections. [7]