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Wildflowers in Carrizo Plain National Monument and Nearby Areas

Carrizo Plain National Monument is the largest native grassland in California, a remnant of the Central California grasslands of 300-plus years ago. It is also one of author Robin Mitchell’s favorite places to visit in the spring, when the wildflowers can be exquisite. She has visited during a few spectacular wildflower displays over the past 20 years, including the spring of 2019 and the spring of this year, which offered breathtaking fields of color. Photo ©Robin Mitchell.

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Spectacular Hidden Eden in Jenner Headlands Preserve

Jenner Headlands Preserve is one of California’s most diverse and magnificent wild places, with spring meadow superblooms, chaparral-covered hillsides, and a forest wonderland that shelters rare species of native plants and animals year-round. To read about the many and varied species and ecosystems in the preserve’s 5,600 acres is to be inspired to visit this jewel on the Sonoma Coast. Photo ©Kimberly Moses.
 
 

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The LIRA Times, Fourth Edition

Sustained volunteer effort can work wonders. In marshes along the Richmond bayshore, Greens at Work volunteers have removed hundreds of thousands of invasive nonnative Algerian sea lavender (LIRA) plants as well as mountains of trash. Three years into the project, they share their impressive results and some significant lessons they have learned through the effort. Photo ©Tom Kelly.
 
 

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Stinkwort Season Begins—All Aboard!

Removing highly invasive stinkwort (Dittrichia graveolens) is rewarding work: you make the East Bay a better place for plants and wildlife and get to know your local environment in a new way while meeting and working with great people and getting as much exercise as a trip to the gym. What more could a native plant lover want? Join our stinkwort removal efforts this summer!
 
 
 

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Reflecting on East Bay Plants in the Wake of Winter Storms

The rainy storms of this past winter and spring were great for drought-parched plants, but the wind was hard on trees. Our chapter’s Field Trips Committee Chair and restoration crew coordinator, Janet Gawthrop, was curious to see how plants in nearby parks and streets fared in comparison with the mudslides and tree crashes that made the news, and she shares her findings in words and illustrations. Painting ©Janet Gawthrop.
 

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September 27, 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
POSTPONED: Save the Date for Our Next IN-PERSON Meeting: Joan Hamilton, Video Producer for Save Mount Diablo (Lecture)
October 1, 10:00 am - 1:00 pm
Oaks on Mt. Wanda in Martinez (Field Trip)
October 5, 5:30 pm - 6:30 pm
CNPS Native Gardening / Naturehood Webinar: FAQS for the Native Plant Garden (On-line Lecture)
October 9, 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
It’s not just another fish! Native Fish and Native Plants: How they interact (webinar) (On-line Lecture)
Warrior's plume (Pedicularis densiflora)Warrior's plume (Pedicularis densiflora). Photo by Helen Hancock.
Curled inflorescence of large-flowered fiddleneck. Photo by John Rusk (CC BY 2.0).
Shell Ridge can be seen against the sky through the branches of this large, old valley oak. Photo by Bill Hunt.
Western leatherwood (Dirca occidentalis)Western leatherwood (Dirca occidentalis).

The mission of the East Bay chapter of the California Native Plant Society (CNPS) is to conserve California native plants and their natural habitats, and increase understanding, appreciation, and horticultural use of native plants.

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