381 the Sfasu Arboretum: A Conservation Strategy for the Endangered Plants of East Texas (2024)

The Sfasu Arboretum Woody and Herbaceous Plant Evaluation Program: Plants with Promise

HortScience, 1995

The mission of the SFASU Arboretum is to promote the conservation, selection, and use of the native plants of Texas and to encourage diversity in the urban landscape philosophy of the region. A decade since its inception, the 10-acre arboretum features many uncommon, unusual, and difficult-to-find species and cultivars, many deserving greater use in the region. The living collection has been acquired through botanical gardens, arboretums, private collections, the nursery industry, and expeditions. The list of promising plants that have surfaced includes many that are not easily available in the trade. The issues involved in woody and herbaceous plant evaluation include computer mapping and record keeping constraints, the long-time frame for evaluation with many woody plants, and difficulties in propagation. The arboretums's plant acquisition policy and record keeping and computer mapping system is currently tracking more than 2500 taxa in the living collection. An overview of th...

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6th Lone Star Regional Native Plant Conference

2012

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Threatened and Endangered Plant Surveys of Northwest Field

2018

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Southwestern rare and endangered plants: Proceedings of the Fourth Conference

These contributed papers review the current status of plant conservation in the southwestern U.S.

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Edwards Plateau Vegetation: Plant Ecological Studies in Central Texas

Journal of Range Management, 1991

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North American Botanic Garden Strategy for Plant Conservation 2016-2020

2016

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Conservation Strategy for Five Special-Status Plant Species in Serpentine Wetlands of Southwest Oregon and Northwest California.

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Developing an Exemplary Collection: A Vision for the Next Century at the Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University

2016

Harvard University not only support the Arboretum’s mission by serving key research, education, and conservation roles, but in their entirety represent one of the very best examples of a historic Olmsted landscape. With some 15,000 accessioned plants, representing almost 4,000 unique taxa that include 2,100 species, the Living Collections of the Arnold Arboretum remain a major destination for those who study and enjoy woody plants. Of the accessions brought to the Arboretum from elsewhere, 44% are of wild origin, hailing from over 60 different temperate countries. Another 39% are of cultivated origin, including pedigreed hybrids, nursery-origin introductions, and accessions from other gardens. This historic interplay between taxonomic, floristic, and cultivated diversities has resulted in one of the most comprehensive and heavily documented collections of temperate woody plants in the world. The living collections are central to the Arnold Arboretum—all research, education, and cons...

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Ex situ plant conservation and beyond

BioScience, 2006

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County Records and Major Range Extensions of Vascular Plants from Erath County, Texas

Texas Journal of Science, 2020

Published data on the vascular flora of Erath County, Texas, is limited. In this investigation, data were obtained from vascular plant specimens deposited in the Tarleton State University Herbarium (TAC). Sixty-six new county records were recorded for Erath County. Major range extensions were documented for forty species, these having previously been known from at least one county away distant from the border of Erath County. Fourteen of the species are non-native while 52 species are native; only one of these, Yucca rupicola Scheele (Texas yucca), is endemic to Texas. No rare, threatened, endangered or state-listed noxious species were found.

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