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2009 Sedge Workshop with Dr. Tony Reznicek
The New York Flora Association is sponsoring a 2 day workshop starting Wednesday June 24th through Thursday June 25th with an optional Tuesday evening session on June 23 for work with your specimens. Dr. Tony Reznicek (University of Michigan), the renowned Carex...
October 2008 NY Rare Moss List Now Available
Aissa Feldmann of the New York Natural Heritage Program has just posted the new rare moss list for New York State. This is the first revision of the moss list since the late 1980s and reflects the recent work of Nat Cleavitt, Sue Williams and Nancy Slack. Click Here.
Conservationist Article on NY Invasives
Read Leslie Suprenant's article about DEC's battle to stop the spread of invasive plants and animals. Click here.
Plant Quiz Gets Its Own Link
You can now access the weekday plant quiz by clicking on the link in the right sidebar under Blogroll. Have fun! - Steve Young
Mertensia City
In Western New York, Karen Schreiner reported on the Genesee Valley Conservancy annual bluebell walk that they host every year. It's near the Genesee River, on 400+ acres of easement protected property. She refers to it as Mertensia City. Her photos below show how...
Albino Trillium erectum in Villenova
While exploring the Township of Villenova in western New York today, we came across this lovely albino wake robin and thought we would share the sighting with these photos! -Priscilla Titus
New article on pine barrens vernal ponds
Jason Bried from the Albany Pine Bush Commission and Greg Edinger from the NY Natural Heritage Program just published an article on the classification of pine barrens vernal ponds. The citation is below. Bried, J.T., and G.J. Edinger. 2009. Baseline floristic...
Slots still open for our Crataegus/Hawthorn workshop in May
Who: Arthur Haines is a plant biologist specializing in the taxonomy and identification of New England tracheophytes. He is currently employed by the New England Wild Flower Society as a research botanist and is involved in writing a new tracheophyte flora of New...
Useful Tree Book
I just came across the book Forest Trees, A guide to the Eastern United States by Lisa J. Samuelson and Michael E. Hogan, 2006. There are many tree books out there but I liked the fact that they have included many photographs of different parts of the tree. Check it...
Invasive Species in WNY: the battle continues
Eighteen enthusiastic volunteers from SUNY-Fredonia and the Nature Sanctuary Society of Western New York visited the Alexander Preserve in Zoar Valley on April 25th to remove several invasive species within the Preserve in honor of Earth Week. Target species of...
National Phenology Network website
Besides the Central New York effort described below there is a national effort to monitor phenology. From their website - The USA National Phenology Network brings together citizen scientists, government agencies, non-profit groups, educators and students of all...
Visit Project Budbreak
What is Project Budbreak? The web site has been established to help citizen scientists observe the effects of climate change on native plants in central New York. Associated with a national effort, a network of citizen scientists is being established in central New...
Answers to maple flower quiz
Number 1: Red maple male flowers. Everything is red! Number 2: Silver maple female flowers: The fruits are hairy. Number 3: Boxelder maple male flowers: The stamens are very long. Number 4: Norway maple perfect flowers: Large petals and bright yellow-green.
Maple flower plant quiz
Look at the images below and see if you can guess to which species they belong. Maple trees are polygamodioecious. Some are all male and some are all female but sometimes parts of the tree can have male flowers and some parts female. Answers tomorrow.[gallery...
Riverside Ice Meadows featured in Wildflower Magazine
An article by Bibi Stein in Wildflower Magazine's Spring 2009 issue features the natural communities and plants of the riverside ice meadows at South of the Glen, in Warrensburg. Read it at http://www.wildflower.org/pastissues/?id=130 The magazine is published by the...
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