Plant Conservation at the University of California Botanical Garden at Berkeley

The mission of the University of California Botanical Garden at Berkeley features plant conservation. It was founded in 1890 as a teaching collection of California native plants and expanded to represent nine major geographic regions and ethnobotanical collections. Detailed provenance data recorded from the garden’s early history makes the living collections invaluable for support of plant conservation and other botanical research. Examples of the scope of conservation work are provided.