PROJECT BUDBURST

Project BudBurst is a nationwide initiative that uses citizen scientist observers to track climate change by recording the leafing and flowering of flora across the United States.

PLANTS OF CONCERN

This Garden program engages citizen scientists to monitor the Chicago Wilderness region’s rarest plants, assess trends in their populations, and provide important data used to conserve our rapidly declining floral heritage.

SEEDS OF SUCCESS

This Garden program collects, conserves, and develops native plant materials for stabilizing, rehabilitating, and restoring lands in the United States.

vPlants Virtual Herbarium

vPlants is an online, searchable database that provides free plant specimen data and digital images of specimens.

Echinacea Study

The once-vast prairie has been reduced to small, isolated patches. How long will remnant populations exist, and how can they be conserved? Follow Garden scientists who are working to answer these questions by studying the narrow-leaved purple coneflower (Echinacea angustifolia).

Chicago Wilderness

The Garden’s partner, Chicago Wilderness, is an alliance of organizations that champions biodiversity and its contribution to the quality of life in the urban, suburban, and rural areas of the Chicago Metropolitan region.