Flagstaff

Chapter Meetings

The Flagstaff Chapter will offer in-person meetings this year with the option to watch from home via Zoom. The meetings will still take place on the third Tuesday of the month, March through October, at 7:00 PM. We have a new location for 2025! The meetings are now being held at the Northern Arizona University Biology Sciences Building, Room 328. Street parking is available nearby. The doors will be locked in the evening, so please meet at the southern
door (the end with the NAU herbarium) to be let in.

The meetings will be held at 7 PM on the third floor of the NAU Biology Building on North Campus.  Come to the door nearest the bus stop on 617 S. South Beaver Street at the corner of Beaver and Franklin. For a map of campus, access below:
https://nau.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019-GIS-Campus-Reference-Map_12.pdf

Some of the meetings have been recorded and can be viewed the Flagstaff Chapter’s Facebook or at The Arizona Native Plant Society. For details about
upcoming meetings, please see our email distribution list (naris123@cs.com), Facebook page, or AZNPS.com.

Register in advance once in order to attend any of the meetings virtually: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/fCOe0-qlSZmMeGZNsNfV_A
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.

Use the link Zoom sends or the passcode 242464 to join the meeting.

Field Trips
Field trips generally leave from south end of the Walmart parking lot on Woodlands Boulevard on Saturday following the talk, April-October. Carpooling is usually available. Please watch for specific details.

 

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Join Our Chapter E-list:  If you would like to receive reminders and announcements about field trips and meetings via e-mail, send a note to Sue Holiday to be added to the list. Stay informed by joining us on Facebook.

Usually the most up-do-date information about upcoming chapter events can be found on our Facebook page.

* Photos above by Sue Carnahan.

Chapter Leadership

Name Role Contact
Kirstin Phillips President flagstaffAZNPS@gmail.com
Melissa Amberson Chapter Contact azmelissa@yahoo.com
Sue Holiday Email Distribution naris123@cs.com
Barbara Phillips Hike Information bagphillips@yahoo.com


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Chapter News

AZNPS Flagstaff: Kirstin Phillips – Buried Treasure in the Herbarium, March 2021 online meeting

Posted on Mar 20, 2021

After recently completing a project to process the herbarium backlog at the Museum of Northern Arizona, Botany Collections Manager Kirstin Olmon Phillips will discuss some of the interesting findings. Learn about several new county records, historical ethnobotanical collections from the 1920s, and some fun plant biographies.

Flagstaff Meeting: Lois Neff and Nemacladus Aug. 18, 7 p.m.

Posted on Aug 05, 2020

Lois Neff: Nemacladus: history, hunting, and sorting the species
Nemacladus (Campanulaceae), is a genus of 26 mostly desert annuals. I will introduce them through images of the tiny flowers. In the post-apocalypse of my thesis defense and during the Covid-19 quarantine, I decided to put faces to names–that is, I’d read articles by numerous botanists for my study, but knew nothing about them as people. I will present a bit about these botanists and their contributions. Also, I’ve met and interacted via email with several Nemacladus hunters, and will share how they hunt for Nemacladus. This part of the presentation is partly self-serving, as I would love to have more people looking for the plants, and letting me know when they find them! I will convey some details about what I did for my thesis–enough to give you an idea of the complexity and complications involved in studying Nemacladus.
Lois Neff is a master’s student in Dr. Tina Ayers’ lab at Northern Arizona University studying plant systematics and evolution.
Email flagstaffAZNPS AT gmail.com for the Zoom link and password. This talk will not be recorded. The talk will occur August 18 at 7 p.m.
Image: Nemacladus flowers. Image credit: Lois Neff
Arizona Native Plant Society talks are free and open to the public.

Native Plants for Gardens

Posted on Jul 06, 2020

The next Chapter meeting is Tuesday, July 21 at 7 p.m. via Zoom. A talk will be given by the owners of Plants for the People: Molly McCormick & Jeff Bowler.

What would it take for Flagstaff to become a refuge for migrating hummingbirds, butterflies, song birds & native bees? Can our collective gardens supply the food & nesting sites these species need as native habitats endure climate change?

We would like to find out and work towards making Flagstaff the ultimate destination for tiny wildlife. To meet this goal, Molly & Jeff started Plants for the People, a small business that provides hard to find native seeds, seedlings, and shrubs for all of the greater Flagstaff area’s residents.

In this talk they’ll share information about their favorite native plants for gardens and how ecologically-based landscape design can support low-maintenance beautiful habitats.

Molly is an ecologist, Permaculture designer, and herbalist. Jeff is a musician, farmer, and landscape designer. Flagstaff has been their refuge for 20 years.

Hope you can join us! To receive the Zoom meeting details, please email Sue Holiday.

Logo art by Ryan Bear Art

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