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Featured: Orobanchaceae Pedicularis caucasica M.Bieb.

The last of their kind

We hold 7 of the world's 100 most irreplaceable flowering plants.

and 18 of the world's 100 most irreplaceable gymnosperms.

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Amorphophallus lewallei Malaisse & Bamps

#2

Critically Endangered

Amorphophallus lewallei Malaisse & Bamps

Araceae

Gomortega keule (Molina) Gunckel

#11

Endangered

Gomortega keule (Molina) Gunckel

Gomortegaceae

Lyonothamnus floribundus A.Gray

#15

Endangered

Lyonothamnus floribundus A.Gray

Rosaceae

Petenaea cordata Lundell

#24

Endangered

Petenaea cordata Lundell

Petenaeaceae

Featured plants

Salvia pichinchensis Benth.

SPECIES

Lamiaceae Salvia pichinchensis Benth.

Angelica gigas Nakai

SPECIES

Apiaceae Angelica gigas Nakai

Penstemon gairdneri var. oreganus A.Gray

SPECIES

Plantaginaceae Penstemon gairdneri A.Gray

Recent Publications

High risk of extinction across the flowering plant tree of life

Félix Forest, Ruth Brown, Sven Buerki et al.

2026

Science

Integrative species delimitation methods infer species boundaries in the Lomatium foeniculaceum complex and indicate an evolutionary history from the Southwest towards the Northeast in western North America

Daniel E. Botello, Donald H. Mansfield, Sven Buerki et al.

2025

Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution

Utilizing a comparative approach to assess genome evolution during diploidization in Artemisia tridentata, a keystone species of western North America

Anthony E. Melton, Stephen Novak, Sven Buerki

2024

American Journal of Botany