Atlanta Botanical Garden
Conservation    Native Plants
The Atlanta Botanical Garden is working with private landowners, government agencies, and other nonprofit conservation groups to restore and manage threatened plant communities in Georgia, Alabama, North Carolina, South Carolina and Florida.

The primary focus of the Atlanta Botanical Garden conservation program has been the monitoring, restoration and conservation of the unique and species-rich bog communities that are found throughout the Coastal Plain and southern Appalachian Mountains of the southeastern United States. Since its inception, the Garden's conservation program has expanded to include work with 124 native plant species of which 22 are federally protected.

Through propagation, outplanting, management and safeguarding, the Atlanta Botanical Garden has played an active role in insuring the long-term survival of many rare and endangered plant species.

  Habitat Restoration
  Rare Species Recovery
  Conservation Partners
Conservation
The key to Atlanta Botanical Garden's Conservation Program is using low-cost restoration and recovery techniques, and to work directly with local landowners and any relevant agencies, botanical institutes and organizations.

The success of the program is based on the high level of horticultural and botanical expertise of its staff members, their dedication to each project and their ability to work on a variety of different levels - local, national or international.

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Native Plants

Habitat Restoration

In the battle to save endangered species from extinction, habitat restoration is one of the most important weapons.

The right growing conditions must be maintained, or, in some cases, re-created to allow for increased viability and health of plant populations.

The Atlanta Botanical Garden's nature conservation program has developed simple, hands-on techniques for restoring natural habitats, in particular, bog habitats.

Managing sites with a combination of prescribed burning and hand-cutting is essential to controlling the growth of woody plants and to maintaining an open, herbaceous plant community.

Rare Species Recovery

The Atlanta Botanical Garden's role in recovery projects involves seed collection, propagation and growth of indexed individuals to be used for reintroduction and augmentation.

The Atlanta Botanical Garden conducts many projects in collaboration with as well as other members, and is under contract with the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service (USFWS) to assist in the recovery of several endangered plant species.

The Atlanta Botanical Garden is working on the recovery of the following federally endangered plant species: Helonias bullata, Sarracenia oreophila, Sarracenia rubra ssp. alabamensis, Sarracenia rubra ssp. jonesii, Schwalbea americana, Torreya taxifolia, Geum radiatum and Hedyotis purpurea var. Montana, Liatris helleri, Solidago spithamaea and Rhus michauxii.

Conservation Partners

As a charter member of the Georgia Plant Conservation Alliance (GPCA), an umbrella organization dedicated to harnessing horticultural advances in the name of conservation, the Atlanta Botanical Garden has been instrumental in developing many of the horticultural techniques for rare plant propagation and restoration that have been applied in GPCA field projects.

In addition to the GPCA, the Garden is currently cooperating with the following conservation organizations to preserve and restore threatened plant communities in the Southeast:

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