Set your alarms to get tickets to the Mount Pisgah Arboretum Mushroom Show- the biggest mushroom display on the west coast. Come to the Arboretum for a day of music, food, guided walks, a kids craft area, and, of course, mushroom displays, mushroom soup, and mushroom-themed gifts! Emerald Chapter will have our booth set up […]
Welcome to the ID-a-thon for Oregon native plants! During November 9-17, we are asking you to add identifications to as many “Needs ID” plant observations posted in Observations Needs ID · iNaturalist as possible, with a goal of reaching 20,000 identifications. The event will run from 12:00 AM Saturday, November 9 to 11:59 PM Sunday, […]
The Fern Ridge Library in Veneta is planting 4 trees as a visual screen (Cascara and vine maple), as well as native shrubs in a bioswale. We spent the last two seasons knocking back reed canarygrass in the swale with plastic mulch, and it's ready to plant with shrubs to suppress future reed canarygrass growth. […]
Dr. Sarah Jacobs, a specialist in our western flora and assistant curator of botany and Howell Chair of Western North American Botany California Academy of Sciences will present this topic from California via zoom. Click here to join the meeting: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/81509150792?pwd=oqhBehLzfzPaM5mPtzbiHy9nX2seew.1 The genus Castilleja, also known as "the paintbrushes," is an iconic group of western […]