Come explore the beauty of botanical language with NPSO President, Steven Yeager. Learn the botanical terminology you will need to identify plants growing in your garden or local forest! Designed to give participants the skills to understand botanical descriptions in herbal texts and gardening books, and become familiar with important vocabulary for the identification and […]
Join Vice-President Karl Anderson on a slow walk on the east side of Mt. Pisgah. Rambles are leaderless walks where everyone looks for wildflowers and identifies them collectively. All levels of skill are encouraged to come! This relatively flat 2 mile roundtrip walk will take us by native endemics like Willamette Valley bittercress (Cardamine penduliflora), […]
Heron Brae is an experienced botanist, wildcrafter, and rewilder with a demonstrated history of working in professional and community environmental services. She is skilled in teaching, research, community organizing, and inspiration, and has 2 decades of experience in field work studying medicinal and edible plants from an ecological and ecocultural perspective. This meeting occurs together […]
Join Lane County Botanist Ed Alverson on an exploration of Blachly Mountain Forest, a close-in old growth forest located along Highway 36 on the Coast Range Divide between Cheshire and Triangle Lake. The old route of Highway 36 is closed and makes for a nice walking route through the lush forest with a good variety […]
This is a self-guided tour of 11 gardens that have been certified as high quality habitat for birds and pollinators, with most plants being native. This tour is a great way to see which native plants are used and get ideas for designs for your own garden. Each garden is unique. Gardens are found in […]
Discover spring wildflowers with a local expert as your guide, explore a rare, remnant prairie and oak habitat along Dorena Lake and the Row River bike trail. Bikes to Blooms is a free event featuring activities for families and nature enthusiasts, including a morning bird walk, guided and self-guided wildflower walks, and educational booths hosted […]
Join botanist Ed Alverson on a trip to collect for the Wildflower Show in the 268-acre Blue Mountain County Park, located along Mosby Creek southeast of Cottage Grove. Its mostly forested landscape contains a diverse assortment of lowland forest wildflowers, with a few prairie species mixed in. We will explore the older forest along a […]
Come visit us at the premiere wildflower display in the Willamette Valley at the Mount Pisgah Arboretum Wildflower Show. This collaborative effort between Mt. Pisgah Arboretum, Lane Community College, University of Oregon and Native Plant Society starts with collecting flowers on Friday, setting up the display on Saturday and the Festival on Sunday. Volunteers from […]