Please adopt me! Trillium parviflorum.
Photograph by Fred Stark.

Rare Care began monitoring Washington's rare plant populations in 2001 to meet the urgent need for up-to-date population and census data for: 1) short-term conservation — land managers use this information to address immediate threats, and 2) long-term conservation — land managers use population trend data to make long-term conservation planning decisions.

Seed collections are part of Rare Care's ex situ conservation program. Ex situ conservation provides a safeguard against the possible loss of a population or species. Seeds are stored in a secure location. The seeds can then be used to reintroduce the species to the original site or other ecologically suitable sites if in situ conservation efforts fail.

Please adopt me! Anemone nuttalliana.
Photograph by Richard Ramsden.

You'll receive Rare Care's semi-annual newsletter, a rare plant species certificate, and a fact sheet on the monitoring results, including the size of the population, habitat description, county and elevation of the population* and an assessment of threats in the vicinity.
Rare Plant Populations Currently Available for Population Monitoring Adoption

You'll receive Rare Care's semi-annual newsletter, a rare plant species certificate, and a fact sheet on the results of the seed collection, including the number of plants from which seeds were collected, the total number of seeds collected, population size, habitat description, county and elevation of the population* and an assessment of threats in the vicinity.
Rare Plant Populations Currently Available for Population Seed Collection

Click the link below. A list of funds will appear. Please select "Rare Plant Conservation."

PLEASE NOTE : In the "Comments" box, be sure to type: 1) Monitoring Adoption or Seed Collection Adoption, 2) the species you have selected, and 3) the county you have selected. The online donation form will not prompt you to do this.

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Mail this form with your check or credit card information to the address shown on the form.

Printable donation form (pdf - 33K)

Rare plant species may also be endowed for perpetuity. An endowment sponsors seed collections, germination testing and research on an endowed species held in the Miller Seed Vault. If you are interested in endowing a plant, please contact Rare Care Program Manager Wendy Gibble at 206-616-0780 or by email at wjgibble@u.washington.edu.