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Wild Flower Society National Collection Species

last modified September 05, 2008

The Center for Plant Conservation National Collection of Endangered Plants contains plant material for more than 600 of the country’s most imperiled native plants. The Wild Flower Society is involved with conservation efforts for 23 of these species.

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Adiantum viridimontanum     Plant Profile

Green Mountain maidenhair fern

Family:  Adiantaceae 

 

Agalinis acuta     Plant Profile

sandplain agalinis, sandplain false foxglove, sandplain gerardia

Family:  Scrophulariaceae  (Figwort Family)

 

Astragalus robbinsii var. jesupii     Plant Profile

Jesup's milkvetch, Robbins milkvetch

Family:  Fabaceae  (Bean Family)

 

Cardamine longii 

Long's Bitter-cress

Family:  Brassicaceae  (Mustard or Crucifer Family)

 

Carex oronensis     Plant Profile

Orono sedge

Family:  Cyperaceae  (Sedge Family)

 

Corema conradii     Plant Profile

broom-crowberry, broom crowberry, poverty grass

Family:  Empetraceae  (Crowberry Family)

 

Desmodium humifusum     Plant Profile

spreading tick-trefoil, trailing tick-trefoil, tick trefoil

Family:  Fabaceae  (Bean Family)

 

Eriocaulon parkeri     Plant Profile

Parker's pipewort

Family:  Eriocaulaceae  (Pipewort Family)

 

Eupatorium leucolepis var. novae-angliae     Plant Profile

justiceweed, New England boneset, New England white-bracted thoroughwort, white-bracted boneset

Family:  Asteraceae  (Sunflower Family)

 

Euphorbia purpurea     Plant Profile

glade spurge, purple spurge, Darlington's spurge

Family:  Euphorbiaceae  (Spurge Family)

 

Geum peckii     Plant Profile

white-mountain avens, mountain avens

Family:  Rosaceae  (Rose Family)

 

Isotria medeoloides     Plant Profile

Small Whorled Pogonia, Lesser Five Leaves, Little Five Leaves

Family:  Orchidaceae  (Orchid Family)

 

Mimulus ringens var. colophilus     Plant Profile

estuarine monkey-flower, Allegheny monkey-flower, square-stemmed monkey-flower

Family:  Scrophulariaceae  (Figwort Family)

 

Oxytropis campestris var. johannensis     Plant Profile

St. John's oxytrope, late yellow locoweed, St. John river oxytrope, Johann's locoweed

Family:  Fabaceae  (Bean Family)

 

Panicum hirstii     Plant Profile

Hirst's panic grass

Family:  Poaceae  (Grass Family)

 

Pedicularis furbishiae     Plant Profile

Furbish lousewort, Furbish's wood betony

Family:  Scrophulariaceae  (Figwort Family)

 

Polemonium van-bruntiae     Plant Profile

van Brunt's Jacob's ladder

Family:  Polemoniaceae  (Phlox Family)

 

Potentilla robbinsiana     Plant Profile

Robbins' cinquefoil

Family:  Rosaceae  (Rose Family)

 

Prenanthes boottii 

Boott's Rattlesnake Root

Family:  Asteraceae  (Sunflower Family)

 

Sabatia kennedyana     Plant Profile

Plymouth rose gentian, Plymouth pink, Plymouth gentian

Family:  Gentianaceae  (Gentian Family

 

Scirpus ancistrochaetus     Plant Profile

Northeastern bulrush, Northern bulrush, barbed-bristle bulrush

Family:  Cyperaceae  (Sedge Family)

 

Scirpus longii     Plant Profile

Long's bulrush

Family:  Cyperaceae  (Sedge Family)

 

Xerophyllum asphodeloides     Plant Profile

beartongue, Eastern turkeybeard, grass-leaved helonias, mountain asphodel

Family:  Liliaceae  (Lily Family)