Our botany program publishes the Rare Plant Status Lists of vascular plants annually, which is used by the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation to produce the regulatory Protected Plant List for New York.

Learn more about projects where the primary focus is rare plants. They include rare plant surveys on public and private land, floras, and iNaturalist surveys.

Our botanists also participate in program-wide projects like our state parks inventory, state forests inventory, iMapInvasives, and special projects that involve inventory with zoologists and ecologists such as our Plum Island project.

Each summer we hire a student from SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry (ESF) to assist us with field work and data management.

Our fieldwork and botanical expertise are used to produce products that inform the public and our partners about rare plant information and issues across New York State.

There are many other sources of information on the flora and rare plants of New York that can be accessed with the links here.