April Membership Event

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 […]

Yosemite’s Alpine Plants in a Changing Climate

Virtual Meeting via Zoom

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, […]

No April General Membership Meeting

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.

May 4 General Membership Meeting – Collinsia

SLO Veterans Memorial Building 801 Grand Ave, San Luis Obispo, California

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 […]

June Membership Meeting – David Keil & New SLO Flora

SLO Veterans Memorial Building 801 Grand Ave, San Luis Obispo, California

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 […]