The membership event for April 2024 is likely to be a spring wildflower hike. Details to follow. Meetings of the general membership of the San Luis Obispo chapter of the California Native Plant Society are held every first Thursday of the months February, March, April, May, June and September, October, November, December. The schedule for […]
For the February general membership meeting, Cal Poly student Rachel Friesen will describe changes in alpine plant communities in Yosemite National Park over a 30-year period, special alpine plant adaptations, […]
There will be no April General Membership Meeting for the San Luis Obispo Chapter of the California Native Plant Society due to many other chapter activities this month.
The speaker at our May 4, 2023 general membership meeting will be Dr. Scott Armbruster speaking on Mysteries in the California Wildflower Genus Collinsia, the Blue-eyed Marys. Scott Armbruster is a renowned 'boots on the ground' evolutionary biologist, and has been studying how flower size in the Collinsias is influenced by their native bee pollinators. Scott […]
At our Thursday, June 1, 2023 general membership meeting, Dr. David Keil will introduce the newly published second edition of the Vascular Plants of San Luis Obispo County. Dr. Keil is the author of this second edition which was originally published in 1970 by fellow Cal Poly professor Robert F. Hoover. The much updated second edition features […]
The October membership program is packed with several events: 6 pm Keying Workshop and Seed Exchange, 7 pm Social Gathering, 730 pm Chapter Business & Speaker. Bring a hand lens and headlamp to […]
CNPS Vegetation Program: Documenting and Describing Sensitive Natural Communities in San Luis Obispo County and Beyond At our November membership meeting, CNPS Vegetation Ecologist and Program Manager Mark Bibbo will […]
At our December membership meeting, Katharina Ullmann will talk about Encouraging Native Pollinators in Your Garden and Beyond. Also at this meeting, members are encouraged to bring their favorite dessert […]
There's still a lot to learn about our local manzanitas. At our January 4, 2024 general membership meeting, our speaker will be Bill Waycott on Manzanitas (Arctostaphylos) – Gifts that […]
The speaker at our February 1 general membership meeting will be Michael Mulroy who will give a brief overview of common lichen species of San Luis Obispo County. Additionally, he will feature some area lichens that are locally and globally rare and worthy of conservation attention. He is most interested in rock-dwelling (saxicolous) lichens, but […]
David Chipping will be the speaker at our March 7, 2024 membership meeting which will be held at the Atascadero Library. His topic is Revealing the Botanic Riches of Santa Rita Creek. Santa Rita Creek runs next to Santa Rita Road at the western end of the town of Templeton in a deeply incised canyon […]