rare plant
Endangered vegetation species
A rare plant is a plant species with limited population, restricted geographic range, or both.
The term appears in conservation contexts, botanical surveys, and environmental regulations.
Collectors prize rare plants, driving both legal cultivation and illegal poaching: The nursery specializes in rare plants from Madagascar.
What qualifies as rare varies—a plant common in one region may be rare globally.
- endangeredAt risk of extinction
- endangered speciesOrganisms facing extinction risk
- exoticStrikingly unusual, foreign-seeming
- orchidShowy tropical flower
- specimenIndividual for examination
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