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Your rare and endangered plants


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I'm super happy to finally have helianthus schweintizii! One of the rarest NA sunflowers.

The groundskeepers at a local church were watering their patch and offered me some when I said it was cool they have it and just dug up a clump. Apparently they were planning on propagating by division and offering some of it to hikers on their trails to help revitalize the cluttered patch anyways. Apparently their patches of it had been a gift from someone else too. I had been thinking of asking for seeds but this way I didn't even have to.

I walk by them all the time because the church trails connect to my yard. Perfect timing since I had just removed one of the rose bushes from the front yard.

Got to talking to them and found out they're aware of the issue with tons of invasives on the trails and are working on fixing it, starting with the Bradford pears and they want to install a natives only garden in the field. So I offered to grow some plants for them. It was a really charming lovely experience to bump into native plant people in the wild.

Also trying to grow "nearly native" sarracenia jonesii from seed (few counties from its proper native range technically but I just like carnivorous plants and wanted to try my hand at growing em from seed and saw them on California carnivores)

So, share your experiences with having, getting, or seeing endangered native plants!

by Random—Precision

22 Comments

  1. ruralfpthrowaway

    Just bought some seed grown grays lily at a native plant sale. It’s native to my county but I’m about 2000-3000 feet below where it normally occurs. 🤞

  2. SheWho2000

    My trillium failed to flower photogenically but they lived. No spreading out, as I hoped for when I planted them

  3. EF5Cyniclone

    Just germinated some Helianthus schweinitzii as well, really excited to get it established. Been looking for a way to ethically source some Allium keeverae seeds, though I’m also a few counties away from their native range.

    Had some Echinacea laevigata seeds last year that didn’t succeed, and now the seller is out of stock…

  4. OutsideThen

    I just got a Physostegia correllii (Correll’s false dragonhead) from my local native nursery. I’m hoping it’s as aggressively rhizomatous as Physostegia virginiana, so I can divide and spread it around.

  5. TemporaryElk5202

    I have a few white ashes and a green ash in my yard

  6. SomeDumbGamer

    I love my Franklinia and red mulberry! Two of my favorite plants I grow.

  7. CaonachDraoi

    I’ve propagated some black ash (Fraxinus nigra) in collaboration with two Indigenous nations around me, one gathers seed every year from healthy populations near their reservation and the other planted who I grew on their reservation which has like zero left. hope to continue doing it in the future.

  8. Rellcotts

    Gentiana flavida Cream Gentian has grown readily from seeds from prairie moon nursery. Despite reading online its deer resistant they mow it down each year. So its fenced in now and it is quite happy.

  10. authorbrendancorbett

    Where I am, Meadow Checkermallow! It’s a super unique plant with a low, shrubby body and round serrated leaves, then these tall spires with petite five-petaled pink flowers along the ends. Really beautiful, huge hit with pollinators, and a conservation risk in the area!

  11. troubleminx

    I just got some Echinacea tennesseensis this year at a nonprofit native plant sale. I’ve heard that it doesn’t look the same in amended garden soil as it does in the limestone glades where it grows naturally so I’m very interested to see how it turns out.

  12. NorEaster_23

    I have multiple Butternut trees still young but growing fast

  14. Darkranger18

    State listed species
    TN coneflower
    Wavy leaf coneflower
    Missouri primrose
    Buffalo clover
    Prairie dropseed

  16. LeafyPrairieClover

    I have the federally listed Leafy Prairie Clover growing in my couple thousand square feet backyard prairie in NE IL. Seed was bought from Prairie Moon and they told me it was sourced from the Illinois population not too far from my house. The few I protected with small cages had dozens of blooms last year and produced a ton of seed. The few I didn’t protect got nibbled on by critters and only produce a few blooms. Just needs a little protection to thrive in my clayey, rocky alkaline soil.

    Also have Illinois listed Queen of the Prairie, Large Flowered Beardtongue, Tube Beardtongue, Royal Catchfly, Prairie Spiderwort, Blue Sage, Canadian Burnet, and Brome-like Sedge growing back there too. My mini bog garden (just a large pot) has the IL listed Purple Pitcher Plant and Orange Fringed Orchid. All were purchased from reputable dealers online or from nearby native plant nurseries.

  17. i_k_dats_r

    I had gotten great germination rates on several spp of milkweed that are rare in my area, rubra, clasping, redring, short green, whorled. They grew about 4″ before every one was bent and snapped. I suspect this is the squirrels, rabbits, or they couldn’t take the heavy rain we had a time or two. So delicate. Idk I really want them so I’m going to have to try to find more of these rare seeds this fall and milk jug them again but with some level of protection from milkweed predators.
    I did get a ton of purple, poke, and my couple surviving butterfly and swamp from last year are going strong and may even bloom this year.

  18. somedumbkid1

    Meh, usually no point until my garden gets much farther along, succession-wise.

  20. Background-Car9771

    Eastern Prickly Pear -Opuntia humifusa. The native and endangered Massachusetts cold hardy cactus very few people know about. I got some pads at a nursery a few years ago and made a sandy bed in my garden just for it. Now its enormous! When a pad falls off I can’t help but root it like this guy here and I don’t know what to do with all these cacti!

    https://preview.redd.it/a3b1ar67te2h1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a177c9edc6e68ae66d97da18dc288bbf3c3a8262

  21. Key_Piccolo_2187

    After the storms in my area, my endangered, rare plants are: all of them. Especially my trees.

  22. Noombat22

    Not endangered here but rare for sure. Not far off from threatened I believe. Spotted Wintergreen. So beautiful, wish I could have gotten one. 

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