November 2025 Membership Meeting and Fern Workshop

The next membership meeting is Thursday, November 6, 2025.The speaker will be David Chipping describing two seasons in the Eastern Sierra Nevada. Dr. Chipping will share photos and descriptions of the spring wildflowers of the Sierra slope west of Lone Pine centering on the Whitney Portal Trail. He will also feature the fall color north of the Sherwin Grade including Convict Lake, McGee Creek and Rush Creek below Silver Lake.

The schedule for the membership meetings is 7:00-7:30 pm for social mixing and light refreshments, and 7:30-8:30 pm for a short business meeting and a presenter. This membership meeting will be held at the San Luis Obispo Veterans Memorial Building (address and map below).

A KEYING WORKSHOP ON FERNS will be held 6 to 7pm before the membership meeting. Facilitated by Dena Grossenbacher, in this free keying workshop you will learn about key characteristics to identify fern species and practice keying locally collected ferns. The Vascular Plants of San Luis Obispo County (Keil) will be our guide. Participants should bring their own hand lens, headlamp and dissection tools. Copies of the relevant key and extra tools will be provided. These keying workshops have been very popular so we encourage you to arrive early.

Photo: Adiantum jordanii by Mary Merriman (2016).