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Explore Communities that follow our Plant Curation & Conservation Track. You can join as many Communities as you’d like!

Our Professional Development Tracks help our Members find Association events, Communities, and resources based on their professional interests, expertise, and goals.

Native Plants Community

Native Plants

The Native Plants Community is intended to be a resource to Association Members focusing on native plants for display, education, collections, research, conversation, and land stewardship.

Plant Collection Community

Plant Collections

The Plant Collections Community acts as a resource and learning center to promote collections best management practices while supporting the professional development of the current and next generation of curators and collections managers.

Plant Conservation Community

Plant Conservation

The Plant Conservation Community purpose is to encourage public gardens to focus on plant conservation as a key mission area and to keep them informed of related issues.

Plant Nomenclature & Taxonomy Community

Plant Nomenclature & Taxonomy

The Plant Nomenclature and Taxonomy Community provides a resource for education, information dissemination, research, discussion, advocacy and best practices about plant names.