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!