Ivy Creek November Virtual Plant Walk
Date/Time
Saturday, November 21, 2020 - Saturday, December 5, 2020
All Day
Location
Ivy Creek Natural Area
Categories
Are you looking for a fun family activity outside while social distancing? Come out to Ivy Creek and take part in November’s virtual plant walk. The monthly series are self-guided plant walks, sponsored by the Jefferson Chapter of the Native Plant Society and the Ivy Creek Foundation.
November’s leader is Ruth Douglas, who will be walking the North Field/Lavender trail and showing us plants, many that are considered invasive and most in the seedhead stage. We marked each unique plant she speaks about with a numbered, orange flag so that they are easy to locate. We have also taken a photograph so that you can check to see if you have found the correct plant. The tour will be posted at least through December 5.
There are many ways to take this walk:
1. We have provided a Plant List which has numbered the plants to correspond with the flags you find along the trail. Print out this list and bring along a field guide to tell you about the plant as you find it.
2. If you want to walk at Ivy Creek with Ruth’s narrative, you can download the free Izi travel app from the Google Play Store or Apple App Store onto your mobile device and it will guide you by GPS along the tour providing Ruth’s narration with accompanying plant photograph. It is helpful to download the walk before you come to ICNA, so you are not reliant on cellphone service. You will also need to have your location turned on. To access all the photos on the app, just touch the box of images and scroll through them as you walk. Start this walk at the top of the North Field/Lavender Trail.
3. If you prefer not to download the app or you prefer to do the walk from home, you can follow the tour on your home computer with this link: https://izi.travel/en/e9c9-november-vnps-plant-walk-at-ivy-creek-natural-area/en. You can “walk” with Ruth, hearing her narration, following the map of the walk and seeing the photographs. To scroll through all the photographs on your computer, use the red dots below the image that begins each section of the walk.
View or download the November 2020 Ivy Creek Virtual Plant Walk List.
We would love your feedback after you experience this walk—in whichever version you choose. Please feel free to contact catherine@ivycreekfoundation.org.
