THE NATIVE PLANT SOCIETY OF NORTHEASTERN OHIO

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To promote the study, appreciation, and conservation of Ohio's native plants and plant communities.

✿ Updating Virtual Archives layout for easier viewing:
1983 - 1989 completed!! 1990 - 1999 completed!!

Compass plant, Silphium laciniatum, The Wilderness Center, Stark County 12 August 2017, Lisa K. Schlag

Aldo Leopold wrote in A Sand County Almanac, "Silphium first became a personality to me when I tried to dig one up to move to my farm. It was like digging an oak sapling. After half an hour of hot grimy labor the root was still enlarging,... I got no Silphium, but I learned by what elaborate stratagems it contrives to weather the prairie droughts."

Seedbox, Ludwigia alternifolia, Veterans Memorial Park, Lake County 17 August 2017, Lisa K. Schlag

herbarium specimen image, The Ohio State University Herbarium

Viceroy butterfly basking on leaf of common milkweed, Asclepias syriaca, Lake Erie Bluffs, Lake County 13 August 2017, Lisa K. Schlag

viceroy VS monarch image, themagnificentmonarchbutterfly.weebly.com

Spring peeper sitting on frond of sensitive fern, Onoclea sensibilis, Hiram Township private property, Portage County 10 August 2017, Lisa K. Schlag

Willow pinecone gall on Salix sp. in summer, Hiram Township private property, Portage County 10 August 2017, Lisa K. Schlag

article: Weird Willow Pinecone Galls and a Gall-Conversion!, BYGL, The Ohio State University

Monarch butterfly sipping nectar from flower of common milkweed, Asclepias syriaca, North Kingsville Sand Barrens, Ashtabula County 5 August 2017, Lisa K. Schlag

Gray hairstreak butterfly perching on gray-headed coneflower, Ratibida pinnata, The Wilderness Center, Stark County 15 July 2017, Lisa K. Schlag

This Ohio native plant has many common names: gray-headed coneflower, gray-head prairie coneflower, yellow coneflower .... The USDA Plants database recognizes only pinnate prairie coneflower as a common name. For more information: USDA Plants Fact Sheet

Downy rattlesnake plantain, Gooyera pubescens, Hiram Township private property, Portage County 10 August 2017, Lisa K. Schlag

Note: the cylindrical arrangement of the upward-blooming flowers along the densely woolly stem is not one-sided or spiral-twisted. For more information: USDA Plants Database and USDA Plants Fact Sheet

Downy rattlesnake plantain, Gooyera pubescens, Hiram Township private property, Portage County 22 July 2017, Lisa K. Schlag

For more information: USDA Plants Database and USDA Plants Fact Sheet

Native red lady beetle or polished lady beetle, Cycloneda munda, observed on underside of leaf of wingstem, Actinomeris alternifolia, Vermilion River Reservation - Bacon Woods, Erie County 27 July 2017, Lisa K. Schlag

Wood nettle, Laportea canadensis, Vermilion River Reservation - Bacon Woods, Erie County 27 July 2017, Lisa K. Schlag

Wood nettle is native to Ohio and is the only nettle with alternate leaves according to Newcomb's Wildflower Guide. Wood nettle has stiff stinging hairs covering the stem, leaf petiole, and leaf underside. Similar to stinging nettle, Urtica dioica, in this regard; however, stinging nettle is not native and has opposite leaves.

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Field Journal Notes

Wetlands Walk at Punderson State Park: 8 August 2018
narrative by Judy Bradt-Barnhart

2018 Grant Announcement & Application Guidelines

Field Journal Notes

Kent Bog State Nature Preserve & Expansion: 23 June 2018
narrative by Judy Bradt-Barnhart

Payge, Nicolai & Angel
Great Job!!

Native Plant Project: 21 June 2018
Perry Middle School Environmental Club
narrative by Payge Silvis

✿ monarch migration News: September 2018 ✿
On the Nectar Trail

Winter Nature Interpretation
by Emliss Ricks, Jr.

2018 Monthly Programs

June 23: Tom S. Cooperrider-Kent Bog & Kent Bog Expansion

July 14: Woodland Ferns of Bedford

August 8: Wetlands Walk at Punderson State Park

September 16: Monarch Tagging at North Kingsville Sand Barrens

September 22: Goldenrods of Northeast Ohio

October 6: Fall is for Planting LOCATION CORRECTION

October 27: Ohio Moss Workshop

November 3: Annual Meeting Dinner

Field Journal Notes

Padanaram Woods: 26 May 2018
narrative by Judy Bradt-Barnhart

Field Journal Notes

North Kingsville Sand Barrens: 23 Sept. 2017
narrative by Amy Goletz

My eyes saw blue-eyed Mary, Collinsia verna, for the first time as I was walking along a woodland trail at The Wilderness Center. This annual wildflower is such a delight!
Thank you Tom for sharing your photograph,
Lisa

Field Notes:
Our heritage is soil bound, 30.i.2016

Field Notes:
Wildflower Walk 24.v.17 at Hiram Field Station

2018 program schedule download

Announcements

The 2015 Gentian Award honoree was our founding president Ann Malmquist

News of Interest

"... conservation improves water quality, promotes native plant growth, and encourages wildlife in the water and on land."
Gary Popotnik, The Wilderness Center

✿ Concentrating on Conservation
The Independent, 7 March 2015, by Christina McCune
✿ Community Watershed Conservation Partnership
The Wilderness Center program & contact information

Join Today!! Electronic subscription to our quarterly publication On the Fringe is a membership benefit.
	Bringing Awareness:
	✿ Endangered-species program needs boost, The Dispatch, 5 June 2015, letter to the editor by Robert McCance

	✿ WEBSITE PAGES for your reading enjoyment: Virtual Archives 2000 - 2009 Virtual Archives 1990 - 1999 Virtual Archives 1983 - 1989 Field Notes post Rooted in Geology: Unlikely Ties between Geology and Wildflowers
	✿ monarch migration News: September 2018: On the Nectar Trail updates, first-hand accounts, and much more!!
	☑ Field Notes: Public Parks Deserve Our Support

ONAPA VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES ✿ help protect Ohio's Natural Legacy

Native Plant Society 2018 Upcoming Events Calendar

In our On the Fringe
March issue:
BioCellar Rain Garden:
Inspired by Native Plant Society of Northeast Ohio Field Trips
by Jean Loria and Pebbles Bush

Rooted in Geology
Unlikely Ties between Geology and Wildflowers

Additional articles of interest for you

✿ Unlikely Ties between Geology and Wildflowers
Rooted in Geology 2015-1

✿ Virtual Archives 2000 - 2009
third decade of our Society's publications
✿ Virtual Archives 1990 - 1999
second decade of our Society's publications
✿ Virtual Archives 1983 - 1989
first decade of our Society's publications