 Campo Imperatore is also home to the Alpine Botanical Garden of Campo Imperatore.Founded in 1952, the garden is devoted to cultivation and study of some 300 species indigenous mountainous plants, including rare and endangered plant species, among them "Vaccinium gaultherioides", Yellow Gentiana ("Gentiana lutea"), Edelweiss of the Apennines ("Leontopodium nivale"), and "Adonis distorta", all plants that have adapted to Campo Imperatore's environment.Campo Imperatore is also the habitat for the Apennine wolf, Apennine wildcat and the Abruzzo chamois.