• 2009 NASC Benefit Auction
  

  

  Once again it is time for the annual on-line NASC Benefit Auction!  This year's auction will run from Saturday, April 11, 2009 until Saturday, April 25, 2009.  The auction, our main fund-raising event for the year, is being hosted on the TerraForums web site. This year a portion of our proceeds are being donated to The Nature Conservancy in North Carolina for the maintenance of a parcel of land recently restored from a severe poaching incident.  For more details click this link.

   

• 501(c)(3)
  

  As of January 2009, the NASC has been officially granted a 501(c)(3) status which means we are federally recognized as a non-profit organization.  Previously, we were recognized as non-profit by the State of Nebraska.

The North American Sarracenia Conservancy (NASC) exists to serve as a living record of the taxonomic, morphological and genetic diversity of the genus Sarracenia for purposes of conservation and cultivation.

In short, the conservancy consists of Sarracenia experts, cultivators and admirers who are working together to preserve the genetic diversity of Sarracenia both by preserving their natural habitat and through a decentralized preservation through cultivation program.  Learn more!

Sarracenia are a genus of carnivorous plants commonly known as North American Pitcher Plants.  These plants grow funnel shaped leaves that allow them to trap and digest insects.  Sarracenia are found from Texas through the eastern seaboard, New England, and much of Canada.  They thrive in swampy areas with acidic soil where most plants starve for lack of nutrients.  Sarracenia, with their alternate source of nutrients, can outcompete other plants that rely on soil nutrients.

Read more on Wikipedia.