The Wild Flower Preservation Society of America is a defunct American non-profit organization dedicated to the conservation of native plants.
The Wild Flower Preservation Society of America was organized in 1902, using funds from a gift of $3000 from Olivia Stokes and Caroline Phelps Stokes to the New York Botanical Garden.
[3][4] Other members of the board included Charles Edwin Bessey, Liberty Hyde Bailey, William Trelease, Charles Frederick Millspaugh, and Alice Eastwood.
[3] The Society established numerous local chapters.
[1] For a time, the Society published The Plant World,[5] a journal that began publication in 1897.