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- September Wildflower Walk at Ivy Creek, Saturday, September 20
- October Chapter meeting
Wednesday, October 8 at Ivy Creek Natural Area - Fall Potting Party
Sunday, October 12 - Wilding: Turn Your Yard into Habitat
Murray Fisher just appeared on The Today Show with his partner at Plan It Wild to share how to rewild your lawn to bring it back to its natural state. When he is not working, he is restoring his own backyard with his wife and three kids, where they have observed, identified and cataloged thousands of unique species on iNaturalist. - The Legacy of Lena Artz
Andrea Weeks, associate professor of botany and director of the Ted R. Bradley Herbarium at George Mason University, shared her ongoing research about Lena Artz and her profound impact on the documentation of Virginia flora. In addition to the presentation recording, download Andrea's paper, and watch a related PBS documentary. - Find more chapter meeting videos at our showcase.
- Update your calendar for upcoming local meetings, presentations, lectures, and other events described in the Jefferson Chapter Events Calendar.
- And keep up with Jefferson chapter activities and discussion on our Facebook Page!
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Plant Sale 2025 — Chelone glabra
Chelone glabra (White Turtlehead) grows 1-4 feet tall. Blooming in late summer it is found in wet woodlands and meadows. This is a good plant to grow near drainpipes. The white flowers sometimes have a pale pink or purple tinge. Bumblebees pollinate this plant and hummingbirds sometimes visit. The common…
Plant Sale 2025 — Trillium sessile
Trillium sessile is a long lived woodland plant that is often called Toadshade or Wake Robin. “Trillium” is from the Latin “tri” referring to the flower parts occurring in threes, and “llium” from the Latin “liliaceous” referring to the funnel-shaped flower. “Sessile” is from the Latin “sessil”, for sessile, stalkless,…
Jefferson Chapter Potting Party
Join us at Full Tilt Farm on Sunday, March 30 at 1PM to pot plants for our annual plant sale! We’ll be potting up member-provided divisions of such sale favorites Celandine Poppy, Green and Gold, Robin’s Plantain, Golden Ragwort, Wild Petunia, and White Wood Aster. Welcomed are other member-donated species…
By Betsy Washington, Northern Neck Native Plant Society Great Blue Lobelia is a lovely late-blooming perennial in the Bellflower family that flaunts tall blue spires of flowers for weeks on end in the late summer-fall. Also called Blue Cardinal Flower or just Great Lobelia, this relative of the well-known red Cardinal Flower is native to…...
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August 15, 2025
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By Betsy Washington, Northern Neck Native Plant Society One of my all-time favorite pollinator plants, Short-toothed Mountain-mint, has just recently been added to the flora of the Northern Neck and I am thrilled to include it as the July Plant of the Month. Several large populations of this incredible pollinator powerhouse were recently discovered near…...
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July 11, 2025
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By Betsy Washington, Northern Neck Native Plant Society American Elderberry is a common, deciduous shrub that lights up our landscape from mid-May through June with huge and profuse clusters of white flowers that literally form a lacy veil over the shrub. Each flower is only about ¼” across but is held in large, flat-topped or…...
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June 13, 2025
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By Betsy Washington, Northern Neck Native Plant Society As May comes into bloom, I always look forward to the flowers on my False Indigo-bush that graces my upper shoreline. I inherited this lovely deciduous shrub when I bought this property and count myself lucky to have this amazing shrub that is beautiful yet tolerates dry,…...
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May 15, 2025
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By Betsy Washington, Northern Neck Native Plant Society Did you know we have a wonderful native Wild Strawberry, also known as Scarlet or Virginia Strawberry? It is an adaptable low, herbaceous perennial that spreads by runners to form handsome, ground-covering semi-evergreen colonies. This diminutive strawberry rarely grows above 6” high but can spread indefinitely as…...
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April 18, 2025
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Coming soon: VNPS offers Mayapple artwork on T-Shirts and other apparel. Mayapples are perennial herbaceous plants with thick fibrous roots that arise from a creeping rhizome. Each year the rhizome elongates about 6 to 20 cm in length, terminating in a bud for the subsequent year’s leafy stem and one or more buds for continuation…...
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February 8, 2025
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By Betsy Washington, Northern Neck Native Plant Society Red Maples, also called Swamp or Scarlet Maples, are known for their brilliant fall color. Now they may seem to be a surprising choice for the February Plant of the Month, but they are a true harbinger of spring, blooming in late winter often as early as…...
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February 5, 2025
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By Betsy Washington, Northern Neck Native Plant Society Inkberry or Gallberry is a great choice for the December Plant of the Month. This handsome broadleaf evergreen shrub typically grows slowly to about 5 – 8’ high and wide and has plenty of winter interest with its small narrowly ovate to lance-like dark green leaves that…...
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December 26, 2024
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