The 2014 BioBlitz and WNPS Annual Meeting is this weekend at Red Canyon Ranch, south of Lander, Wyoming.  For the event, we created two resources for the plant-savvy and -newbies alike, both listed below.

Red Canyon Rare Plant Round Up – a list of the five endemic plants to Red Canyon

Red Canyon Flora – a list of all plants to be expected or found in Red Canyon

Download the PDF here: May 2014 Castilleja Newsletter

In this issue

• SOS: A Signal of Reclamation Progress
• Weeding Fiction from Fact
• Native Plant-Bee Mutualisms
• Growing Native Plants: Perennial Grasses

The Wyoming Native Plant Society’s 2014 Annual Meeting and Field Trip information is now available, and registration is now open.

This year’s meeting will be at Red Canyon Ranch, just south of Lander, Wyoming.  It will be held inconjunction with the 2014 BioBlitz, sponsoredby Audubon Rockies, The Nature Conservancy and the UW Biodiversity Institute.

Click here for more information and to register!

Below is the link to the 2014 Wyoming Vascular and Nonvascular Plant Identification References document, collated and provided by Bonnie Heidel.  Included are plant ID references, including every popular and technical book that has ever been reviewed in the newsletter (and some that haven’t), all current floras of adjoining states (since Wyoming’s doesn’t have habitat description or graphics), and a phone app for the first time.

Download the reference guide here.

Download the PDF here: March 2014 Castilleja Newsletter

In this issue

• Wyoming SNOW-and-Tell
• Engelmann spruce – the Man Behind the Tree
• New variety of Astragalus hyalinus (summer milkvetch)
• Ongoing Inventory of Wyoming’s Flora
• Bryophyte Inventory Bonanza
• Growing Native Plants: Annual Forbs