---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 1541"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "1541"
heading: "Endangered plants"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/1541"
units:
  - "Chapter 35 — Endangered Species"
---

# §1541. Endangered plants


The [Secretary](/usc/16/1532.md?p=15) of the Smithsonian Institution, in conjunction with other affected agencies, is authorized and directed to review (1) [species](/usc/16/1532.md?p=16) of [plants](/usc/16/1532.md?p=14) which are now or may become endangered or threatened and (2) methods of adequately [conserving](/usc/16/1532.md?p=3) such [species](/usc/16/1532.md?p=16), and to report to Congress, within one year after December 28, 1973, the results of such review including recommendations for new legislation or the amendment of existing legislation.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 93–205, § 12, Dec. 28, 1973, 87 Stat. 901.)