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The Winter 2025 Sempervirens is ready to read! 2-19-2025
Introducing the 2025 Wildflower of the Year, Mayapple (Podophyllum peltatum). Read all about it, and enter the t-shirt design contest. 2-8-2025
The Winter 2024 Sempervirens is ready to read! 1-3-2025
Help Us Support the Digital Atlas of Virginia Flora. Donate now to expand its reach and effectiveness. 11-5-2024
• A New Online Dictionary of Virginia Botanical Etymology. This dictionary, compiled and edited by Michael Charters, lists Latin, Greek, and other derivations of botanical and biographic names in Virginia. View the Online Dictionary here. 8-20-2024
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The Flora of Virginia Project Gets Noticed!
The Flora of Virginia Project continues its upward trajectory with recent coverage by both press and radio of the opening of its truly grand exhibition in the Library of Virginia in March. Members of the Virginia Native Plant Society can take justifiable pride in the fact that we generously helped to fund first the book,…
Read MoreNew Book: Wildflowers and Grasses of Virginia’s Coastal Plain
Here is a new book you will want to have as Virginia’s spring bursts forth and you are out in the field with “need to know” questions! Specifically designed to be easy to use, flowers are grouped by color and quickly located with color-coordinated tabs at the top of each page. Grasses have their own…
Read MoreDCR Natural Heritage Budget Not Approved
I am very sorry to report that despite a good effort on the part of the VNPS leadership and many of its members who wrote to their Delegates and Senators, the budget amendment to add $900,000 and seven full time staff for DCR’s Natural Heritage Program failed. There was no explicit vote, just an absence…
Read MoreGet the Flora of Virginia into an Exhibition
Let’s get the Flora of Virginia into an exhibition at the Library of Virginia! The Flora, a result of many years of fundraising and research, published a this time last year, has already become an invaluable resource for botanists at every level of interest. An amazing exhibit is planned for an extended time, from March…
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