Native Plant Conservation Campaign News: NPCC welcomes the Florida Wildflower Foundation as our 54th Affiliate!
December 9, 2019
The Florida Wildflower Foundation is the newest Native Plant Conservation Campaign Affiliate. The FWF nurtures the awareness, understanding and 
enjoyment of Florida’s native wildflowers through education, planting and research projects that increase the presence of wildflowers and support the wildlife depending upon them.
enjoyment of Florida’s native wildflowers through education, planting and research projects that increase the presence of wildflowers and support the wildlife depending upon them. They fund their work in part through Florida’s State Wildflower license plate. Each time a plate is sold or renewed, $15 is donated to the Foundation. Since 2000, more than $4 million has been raised for wildflower education, planting and research across Florida.
FWF accomplishments include:
- Saved roadside wildflowers in 33 counties and three cities through the adoption of formal resolutions.
- Shaped policy that has reduced roadside mowing and designated dozens of new wildflower areas.
- Developed a classroom activity guide through which kids discover “real” Florida and its creatures.
- Changed public perceptions that inadvertently damage Florida’s environment.
- Teamed with schools, nature centers, botanical gardens, and city, county and state parks to establish hundreds of wildflower plantings that connect people to native, natural Florida.
- Their programs include Seedlings for Schools grants; a Pledge for Wildflowers and a model Roadside Wildflower resolution to help counties and others actively conserve roadside wildflowers. Thirty three counties and three municipalities have adopted the resolution.
More information is available on the Florida Wildflower Foundation website
Welcome to the Campaign Florida Wildflower Foundation!
Photo: Terra Environmental Research Institute students in Miami used native plants to learn horticulture techniques and to teach elementary school students about wildflowers. The Florida Wildflower Foundation has given native wildflowers gardens to 500 schools throughout the state. Photo © Florida Wildflower Foundation
