The U.S. Botanic Garden is one of many botanic gardens worldwide that actively participate in the conservation of endangered species by maintaining live specimens in their collections, studying wild plants at risk, banking seeds of rare plants, and introducing rare plants to the horticultural trade. Some Rare and Endangered plants are included in the gallery below.
Rare and Endangered Plants Gallery
Wodyetia bifurcata - Foxtail palm
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Welwitschia mirabilis - Onyanga (Desert Onion)
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Torreya taxifolia - Stinking cedar
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Taxus floridana - Florida yew
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Sarracenia rubra Walter - ssp. Rubra - Sweet pitcher plant
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Sarracenia rubra - ssp. Alabamenis - Canebrake pitcher plant
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Sarracenia - Sarracenia
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Nolina brittoniana - Britton’s beargrass
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Macbridea alba - White-birds-in-a-nest
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Lilium iridollae - Pot-of-gold lily
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Liatris scariosa - var. novae-angliae - New England blazing star
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Gaillardia aestivalis - var. winkleri - Winkler’s gaillardia
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