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NYFA Field Trip This Sunday
Learn about lichens at one of the most beautiful places in New York, Chaumont Barrens near Watertown. Click on the NYFA calendar in the links list to learn more.
Dr. Don Leopold from ESF Discusses Planting Native Plants for Green Roofs
This is a short segment on YNN of Don talking about the merits of planting native plants for green roofs. Click Here.
New Lists Posted on NYFA Google Map of Plant Lists
Lists recently posted include these from St. Lawrence County by Anne Johnson and Nancy Eldblom: Indian Creek Nature Center Grass River Wild Forest Wolf Lake State Forest Yellow Lake State Forest Click the Google map of plant lists in the links section on the right...
No More Northeastern Bulrush Found But Diverse Wetlands Encountered
Steve Young, New York Natural Heritage Program - During our last week of searching Steuben and Allegany Counties for the federally threatened Northeastern Bulrush we did not find any additional populations but we encountered good habitat dominated by other plants. So...
Caroyln Summers Book Signing at Fiddlehead Creek Nursery
Workshop On The Value and Necessity of Native Plants and Animals
Deer Impact Study on Vegetation Taking Place at Beaver Meadows State Forest
We all know how destructive deer populations have been on native plants in New York. DEC is now funding a study to quantify this effect on a state forest in Chenango County. See more details HERE. We hope more of these studies will result in better management...
Northeastern Bulrush (Scirpus ancistrochaetus) Rediscovered in New York
From Steve Y0ung, NY Natural Heritage Program - This federally-threatened plant is known from Virginia north to Vermont. Learn more about it at the Center for Plant Conservation website HERE. In New York, there was only one historical collection, from the Putnam...
New Lists Posted on NYFA Google Map of Plant Lists
Maps recently posted include: Whiteface Mountain plant list. Plants of Long Island by Jelliffe 1899. Click the Google map of plant lists in the links section on the right side of the page.
How Prepared is the U.S. to Meet Future Botanical Challenges?
The Chicago Botanic Garden and Botanic Gardens Conservation International 's U.S. office have been working with partners across the country to assess current and future botanical capacity in the United States. The aim of this grant-funded project is to understand the...
In Search of Long Island Rare Plants 3 – Southern Arrowwood
From Steve Young – NY Natural Heritage Program. In New York two varieties of Viburnum dentatum are found, var. lucidum, northern arrowwood, also called Viburnum recognitum in some books, and var. dentatum, southern arrowwood. Viburnum dentatum var. dentatum is found...
Soft Fox Sedge (Carex conjuncta) Rediscovered in New York.
Botanist David Werier rediscovered this state endangered sedge in Chemung County this summer. It had not been seen in the state since a specimen was collected in 1966 in Rensselaer County and was listed as state historical by the New York Natural Heritage Program....
New Population of the State Threatened Sea-Pink Found on Long Island
Luke Ormond found New York's 9th population of the rare sea pink (Sabatia stellaris) in a salt marsh near Riverhead this week. This beautiful wildflower is only found on the east end of Long Island in New York and makes a good subject for photography. You can see his...
Is Heal-all (Prunella vulgaris) Native or Exotic? It’s both!
I always thought that Prunella was exotic but it is listed as native in Newcomb's Wildflower Guide. As it turns out there are two varieties and one is native (var. lanceolata) and one is not (var. vulgaris). In the NYFA Atlas David Werier sets forth the history of...
New Lists Posted on NYFA Google Map of Plant Lists
Maps recently posted include: Sortable Rare Plant List 2010 Ferns in the Vicinity of Poughkeepsie 1890 Vassar College Herbarium List 1890 Mud Pond Dryden List 1926 Access the map on the links sidebar.
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