Leaders: Gail Baker and Steven Yeager Ever wonder what plants flourish during the winter season in the Willamette Valley? We’ll examine and learn to identify ferns, lichens, trees, and shrubs in their winter stages, some with fruits, some without leaves or flowers, and notice which ones are already breaking bud. The two-hour walk will provide […]
Speakers: Dr. Alison Colwell, Curator, Center for Plant Diversity, UC Davis and Dr. Adam Schneider, University of Wisconsin, LaCrosse. Alison Colwell and Adam Schneider have been studying the non-photosynthetic members of the parasitic plant family Orobanchaceae (primarily Aphyllon, Conopholis and Phelipanche) in North America for many years. Hard to find, largely subterranean and often rare, […]
Speaker: Michelle Osgood, Assistant Horticulturist at the U.S. Forest Service Dorena Genetic Resource Center Featuring funky ferns and quirky Quercus, USFS Horticulturist Michelle Osgood shares techniques about propagating ferns from spores, collecting wild seed, growing resilient native plants, and outplanting them into the wild or even your own backyard.
Rambles are casual walks where participants identify and share knowledge of plants they encounter as a group. All levels of experience are welcome. All we ask is that you are interested in plants! We’ll walk along a gravel access road and established trails. Approximate distance will be 3 miles round trip. There should be an […]
Join State Board Director Bruce Waugh hiking in an old growth forest on a streamside trail through a scenic, rocky canyon. We will primarily see forest flora with the occasional rocky bald. It is a 3 miles round-trip on an easy to moderate trail. Due to the narrowness of the trail and steep drop offs, […]
The property surrounding this museum, on the University of Oregon campus, bears an excellent native plant garden that is little known to the community. In partnership with the museum, Emerald Chapter members will be leading this short walk in and around the museum's Glenn Starlin Native Plant Courtyard. With over forty species, the courtyard offers […]
Lincoln Best, Faculty Research Assistant at OSU, will introduce the productive framework for education through the online Master Melittologist program and data production for the Oregon Bee Atlas. These complementary programs have assessed native bee visitors to more than 1,500 plant taxa in the state and have detected several hundred species of bees including new […]
Located on the NW corner of the Laurelwood Golf course, Hugh Prichard, co-owner with the city of Eugene, will lead us on this tour. The Laurelwood Bog is a native plant project in its 14th year and has many mature plants with forty-foot tall Salix and a Ninebark tunnel arching over the pathways. Hugh has […]
