Forgotton Flora LLC is an environmental consulting service founded and led by Charlotte Lorick. Charlotte specializes in field botany, landscape ecology, conservation land stewardship. She has worked for over a decade exploring human relationships with the land, developing conservation research and educational programs, and implementing regenerative land stewardship strategies that promote resilient ecosystems and biodiversity. She believes that plants can tell us a lot about the history of land and can also help guide our future land stewardship plans. She emphasizes biodiversity and the need to consider all plants, from the bold and showy to the humble and forgotten and everything in between. Every individual contributes to an interconnected system and she integrates this into each land stewardship plan.

Her recent work at the Smithsonian Institution and Oak Spring Garden Foundation integrates science, art, humanities, and community outreach to inspire conservation action on public and private land.

Ecology and plants are central to Charlotte’s personal and professional life. Her expertise includes:

• conservation land stewardship and ecological landscape planning

• ecological restoration (native meadow installations, reforestation, riparian, etc.)

• ecological community assessments

• surveying and monitoring native plant, bird, and pollinator communities

• agricultural economics and food systems

• foraging, nutrition, gardening, and functional herbalism