AZ Native Plant Society Meeting

 

Amelia Blake - Propagating Native Plants

Growing uncultivated plant varieties can be challenging, they often have seed dormancy, unique soil needs and don’t grow well in containers. Because of this, many native plants are not available in the nursery industry and native plant enthuses are left to cultivate their own. Amelia will discuss strategies for successful native plant propagation.

Amelia Blake is co-owner Lily of the Field Nursery which focuses on growing native and heirloom plants that are especially well adapted to the Flagstaff area. Amelia spent her childhood working with plants at the NAU Research Greenhouse during her father’s stint as greenhouse manager. She received her B.S. in Plant Sciences from the University of Arizona in 2014. She then worked at Native Plant and Seed for 3 years before opening Lily of the Field Nursery in 2020 with her husband. She sells at most of the local markets, runs the Gardener’s Market in east Flagstaff each spring, and sells by appointment from their home in the Upper Greenlaw neighborhood.

The meeting will be held at 7 PM on the third floor of the NAU Biology Building on North Campus. For a map of campus, access below:
https://nau.edu/.../2019-GIS-Campus-Reference-Map_12.pdf

If attending virtually, register in advance for this meeting at:
https://bit.ly/FlagAZNPS25
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AZNPS talks are free and open to the public.

 Arizona Native Plant Society

 Desert Botanical Garden Phoenix, Arizona 

 21st Annual Arizona Botany Meeting

 1-2 March 2025 

The Desert Botanical Garden 

1201 N. Galvin Parkway Phoenix, Arizona 

Theme: Exploring the Botanical Diversity, Ecology, and History of Arizona’s Native Flora See AZ Native Plant Society 

Website for Details and Registration: www.aznps.com or 

Talk on the Columnar Cacti

 From Susan Holiday at the Native Plant Society:

Allow me to introduce myself -- I’m the Communication Coordinator for the Natural History Institute, a non-profit in Prescott that hosts a wide variety of natural history talks, field experiences, a 9,000 specimen herbarium, and a nature art gallery. We are also the meeting place for the Prescott Native Plant Society and the Prescott Audubon Society.

All of our talks are live-streamed to our Youtube channel, so they can be attended remotely as well as in-person in Prescott. We have an upcoming talk that I think will be of interest to AZ Native Plant Society members, and I was wondering if you could share it with members of your chapter.

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"On Growth and Form: Ecology and Evolution of Columnar Cacti" 

A free talk with Dr. Alberto Búrquez

Thursday, March 28th at 7pm

Natural History Institute

Registration for in-person attendance

Livestream link

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We will be having our next meeting Thursday, Sept. 19 at 7 PM. You need to register in advance using the zoom registration sight below. 

Andrew Salywon - Using trained dogs to detect endangered Spiranthes delitescens and related orchid taxa

The objective of this work is to determine the ability of detection dogs to identify the presence of Spiranthes delitescens. If successful, the use of detection dogs would be a powerful tool to aid future surveys to relocate historical populations or discover previously undocumented populations of Canelo Hills ladies’ tresses. Utilizing trained dogs and their powerful sense of smell can greatly aid conservationists by making plant surveying much more efficient thus requiring less human effort and resources. Spiranthes delitescens have recently been observed in small numbers at only one of four historically documented sites.

Andrew Salywon is an herbarium curator and research botanist at the Desert Botanical Garden in Phoenix. Salywon came to the Desert Botanical Garden after completing his Ph.D. in Plant Biology and conducting postdoctoral research on developing Lesquerella as a new industrial oilseed crop at the United States Department of Agriculture, Arid-Land Agricultural Research Center. His research interests are in conservation, endemic, rare and endangered plants in Arizona and the Sonoran Desert, floristics, new crop development, and systematics using both traditional and molecular data. On-going projects include the Flora of Agua Fria National Monument, evolution and inheritance of hydroxy fatty acids in Lesquerella (Brassicaceae – the mustard family), systematics of native and cultivated Agave (Agaveaceae - the Agave family) in Arizona, Cylindropuntia (Cactaceae –the cactus family) and Mosiera (Myrtaceae – the myrtle family).

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Our next talk, via Zoom,  will be:  Kat Thompson – Food sovereignty of the Laguna and Navajo Nation

Presentation Description: This presentation will provide examples of ancestral and current Indigenous farming practices that have sustained communities and cultures in the Southwest for thousands of years. These agricultural practices can revitalize a local landscape into an edible landscape that is reflective of our bioregion and our diets.  This includes exploring traditional uses of native plants and trees, and how to utilize them in a local food system.

Bio: Kat Alicia Thompson grew up in Flagstaff, Arizona.  She received her graduate degree from Northern Arizona University in Forestry and Applied Indigenous Studies. Her studies focused on how tribes can secure food sovereignty through environmental land management practices. Currently, Kat is located in New Mexico and coordinating with Indigenous farmers in creating edible landscapes.

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https://fb.me/e/1S6I2DCHC

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Native Plant Society Meeting on Zoom

 

Don't miss our first meeting, Jammie Yazzie speaking on Forest Change and Climate Sensitivity across the Chuska Mountains and Defiance Plateau.  This year is a little different as you have to register with the below link to get into the zoom room.  

You are invited to a Zoom meeting.

When: Mar 15, 2022 07:00 PM Arizona

Register in advance for this meeting:

https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZAtdumqqTksEt2gipiyQmY2snLGiVifo_Hs

After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.  The process is easy as they ask only for your name and email to send you the zoom number.  I registered and received the information via my email.  If you have any questions you can contact me (naris 123@cs.com) or Kirstin Philips (kphillips@musnaz.org). Please register ahead of time.

Meeting Info:

Forest Change and Climate Sensitivity across the Chuska Mountains and Defiance Plateau

The Navajo forest landscape is experiencing an increasing likelihood of extreme climate conditions, including warming temperatures and drought stress. The forest plays a vital role in Diné livelihoods through social, cultural, spiritual, subsistence, and economic aspects. Jaime Yazzie will discuss lessons learned and reflections on climate change projects focused on forests of the Navajo (Diné) Nation.

Jaime Yazzie is Diné (Navajo) and resides in Northern Arizona. She is Tséníjíkiní (Cliff-Dwellers/Honey Combed Rock People), born for Lók’aa’ Dine’é (Reed People Clan), maternal grandfathers are Honágháahnii, (One-walks-around clan) and paternal grandfathers are Chishí Diné’é (Chiricahua Apache). Jaime received her Bachelors from the University of Washington and Master of Science in Forestry from Northern Arizona University. She currently works as a forestry consultant with the Laboratory of Tree Ring Research, leading two fieldwork seasons and supporting project analysis.

AZ Native Plant Society Meeting and Lecture

 Wynne Brown - The Forgotten Botanist: Sara Plummer Lemmon's Life of Science and Art

Tuesday, October 19, 2021 at 7pm MST

Wynne’s latest book is the account of an extraordinary woman who, in 1870,
was driven by ill health to leave the East Coast for a new life in the West—
alone. At thirty-three, Sara Plummer relocated to Santa Barbara, where she
taught herself botany and established the town’s first library. Ten years later
she married botanist John Gill Lemmon, and together the two discovered and
collected hundreds of new plant species, many of them illustrated by Sara, an accomplished artist. Although she became an acknowledged botanical expert and lecturer, Sara’s considerable contributions to scientific knowledge were credited merely as “J.G. Lemmon & Wife.”

Writer/editor/graphic designer Wynne Brown is the author of the award-winning books More Than Petticoats: Remarkable Arizona Women (Globe Pequot Press/Rowman & Littlefield, 2003, 2012) and The Falcon Guide to Trail Riding Arizona (Globe Pequot Press/Rowman & Littlefield, 2006) and the co-editor of Cave Creek Canyon: Revealing the Heart of Arizona’s Chiricahua Mountains (ECO Wear & Publishing 2014, 2019). Her most recent book, The Forgotten Botanist: Sara Plummer Lemmon’s Life of Science and Art, will be published in November 2021 by the University of Nebraska Press. She serves as president of the Chiricahua Regional Council and represents Pima County as a member of the Arizona Historical Society State Board of Directors. Her website is www.wynnebrown.com.

Arizona Native Plant Society talks are free and open to the public.

The Arizona Native Plant Society is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.

Topic: Flagstaff AZNPS Talk: Wynne Brown - Sara Plummer Lemmon, 19th Century Artist and Botanist

Time: Oct 19, 2021 07:00 PM Arizona

AZ Native Plant Society Meeting

 

The Arizona Native Plant Society is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.

Topic: Flagstaff AZNPS Talk: Liza Holeski - Plant defenses against herbivores

Time: Sep 21, 2021 07:00 PM Arizona

Liza Holeski will give a general overview of plant defenses against herbivory, describing the forms of defense as well as highlighting some particularly interesting examples. She will also talk a bit about her research in plant defense in monkeyflowers, as she works with a number of natural populations of monkeyflowers in Arizona.

Liza Holeski is an Associate Professor in Biology at NAU. Her research focuses on plant evolutionary ecology and genetics. She is interested in plant adaptation to biotic and abiotic environmental factors, plant-herbivore interactions, and the evolutionary genetics of plant defense traits. Much of her work is in monkeyflowers, but she also works with Populus species.

Arizona Native Plant Society talks are free and open to the public.

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