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Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden
United States of America - California - Claremont
Institution Code: RSA
International Agenda Registrant: Yes
Current BGCI member: Yes
About the Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden
Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden was founded to promote botanical knowledge, conservation, and landscape use of California's native plants.
As a private, non-profit, research and educational institution, with extensive library, herbarium, and laboratory facilities, the Garden is responsible for the Botany Program of the Claremont Graduate University. Active research in systematic and evolutionary botany, as well as the Garden's horticulture and community education programs, focus on native California plants and their conservation.
The garden is located on the same property as the Grow Native Nursery, which sells California native plants.
The mission of the Garden is to make significant contributions to the appreciation, enjoyment, conservation, understanding, thoughtful utilization and stewardship of our natural heritage.
Main Address:
Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden
1500 North College Avenue
Claremont
California 91711 United States of America
Telephone Number: (909) 625-8767
Fax Number: (909) 626-7670
Web Site: www.rsabg.org
Institution Email Address: egarton@rsabg.org
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- Staff Details
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Director: Patrick Larkin, Executive Director
Curator: Susan Jett, Director of Horticulture
Plant Records Officer: Helen Smisko, Plant Records Manager
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Total Staff:
Number of Horticultural Staff: 12
Number of Educational Staff: 4
Number of Research Staff: 18
Number of Administration Staff: 15
- About this Garden
- Institution Type: Botanic Garden
- Status
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Private: Yes
Educational Establishment: Yes
- Date Founded: 1927
- Physical Data
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Natural Vegetation Area (inside BG): Yes
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Total Area (in Hectares): 34 hectares
Latitude: 34.1200
Longitude: -117.7200
Annual Rainfall: 485 mm
Altitude: 396.00 metres
- Local Information
- Garden Name:
- Address: Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden is located at an elevation of 1,350 feet on the outwash plain of the San Gabriel Mountains in Claremont, California. The 86-acre Botanic Garden is laid out in three distinct areas: Indian Hill Mesa (heavily planted with mature cultivars and wild species of California native plants), East Alluvial Gardens (includes the Desert Garden, the Coastal Dune and California Channel Island collections), and the Plant Communities(displays, in naturalistic plant associations, include the largest cultivated examples of Big Berry Manzanita and numerous plantings of the rare and endangered Crucifixion Thorn).
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- State:
- Features and Facilities
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Herbarium: Yes
Number of Specimens in Herbarium: 1000000
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Seed Bank: Yes
Computer Plant Record System: Yes
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Open to the Public: Yes
Society of Friends: Yes
Retail Outlet (shop): Yes
Retail Outlet (plant sales): Yes
Disabled Access: Yes
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Number of Visitors: 92000
Number of Volunteers: 200
- Plant Collections
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Number of Living Plant Accessions: 6299
Number of Taxa in Cultivation: 1780
- Special Collections:Arctostaphylos (86 taxa), Ceanothus (78 taxa). Plantings devoted exclusively to California native plants, including northern Baja California.
Seed Bank containing over 3,000 accessions representing 1,400 taxa from the state of California and northern Baja California in MexicoSeed bank collections of rare, threatened, and endangered California plant species, many collections representing the only remaining genetic material from currently extirpated populations.
- Conservation Programmes
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Conservation Programme: Yes
Ex Situ Conservation Programme: Yes
Reintroduction Programme: Yes
- Research Programmes
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Conservation - Biology: Yes
Conservation - Genetics: Yes
Floristics: Yes
Molecular Genetics: Yes
Pollination Biology: Yes
Seed/Spore Biology: Yes
Urban Environments: Yes
- Education Programmes
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Visitor/Education Centre: Yes
Education Signs in Garden: Yes
Public Lectures/Talks: Yes
Education Booklets/Leaflets: Yes
Guided Tours: Yes
Permanent Public Displays: Yes
Courses for School Children: Yes
Courses for University/College Students: Yes
Courses for General Public: Yes
