WGC-GNPS • Plant Rescue Resources

All Chapter members are eligible to attend any GNPS plant rescue.

To learn about currently scheduled GNPS rescues, please visit the Rescue Schedule page on the GNPS website. This page is usually updated with the next month's rescues around the 24th of each month, but pop-ups can be added at any time.

If you are interested in the rescue program, please make sure that you are on the GNPS rescue mailing list, so you will receive a mailing when the Rescue Schedule page is updated. This is not our chapter mailing list.

To learn more about the GNPS Plant Rescue Program, take a look at the Plant Rescue FAQ.

You can help us find new rescue locations. There is now an online Potential Rescue Site Information Form that can be filled out to start the process. If you see a property that is going to be developed, please take the time to gather all the information you can and submit it on the form. If you have questions regarding this form, you can learn more about how new sites are located on the Plant Rescue FAQ.

To help identify plants you find, or just to see how native plants look this month, visit Mike Strickland's personal homepage - A Rescuer's Guide to Georgia Native Plants.

An excellent place to get help identifying a plant is the GNPS Discussion Forums on the GNPS website. There is a special forum set up just for plant ID, which allows you to post descriptive text and photos. The forums are free and open to anyone, so please feel free to sign up and post your questions, observations and photos.

Chrysogonum virginianum
Green-and-Gold
Photo Credit: Mike Strickland

Native Plants do well in the home landscape. The Green-and-Gold pictured above is growing in a front yard flowerbed beside a lawn. This little plant is low growing so makes a good ground cover at the front of a flowerbed. It is very hardy, drought tolerant and likes full sun. As pictured, it forms a dense colony that tends to spread in a round pattern. Divide the plants in spring or fall to spread them. Other plants in this bed are Rosemary (culinary variety), Piedmont Azalea (Rhododendron canescens), Daylilies and Jonquils. This colony spread from a rescued plant obtained from a Georgia Native Plant Society official rescue from a subdivision project but also grows naturally elsewhere on the property.