Our discussion will focus specifically on the challenges and successes in dealing with invasive plants in our own yards as well as the Phoenix metro area.

Join botanical artists Sue Hildreth and Melanie Campbell-Carter to explore the intersection of art and science in Botany.  Have you ever wondered about botanical representation and why it might be relevant to you?  Neuroscience provides some answers. We’ll learn about several collaborative botany projects in Tucson. We’ll also honor and review selected local botanical artists, […]

The Desert Botanical Garden is offering a virtual Budding Botanist Training course to AZNPS Chapters and other organizations. Registration details coming soon!

Dr. Soule will discuss the blend of native and introduced plants that were grown in the Mission Gardens, with a focus on the ones that can be grown in your Cochise County landscape.

The release of treated wastewater into portions of the Santa Cruz river basin in Downtown Tucson have initiated a renaissance for this historic river, as native species recolonize the riparian habitat.

Botany Collections Manager Kirstin Olmon Phillips will discuss some of the interesting findings after recently completing a project to process the herbarium backlog at the Museum of Northern Arizona.

For link to the Zoom event, please email jdougripley@gmail.com

During our March Chapter meeting, we will discuss the fantastic book Bringing Nature Home: How You Can Sustain Wildlife with Native Plants by Douglas W. Tallamy. While the book primarily focuses on the East, the overall theme is the importance and need for native plants in home landscapes across the country to support healthy ecosystems. […]

Native medicinal plants play a prominent role in the biological and cultural worlds we inhabit everyday. As iconic landscapes of the Southwest evolve, observing plant interactions with their environment can inform our understanding of botanical medicine and illustrate the impacts of economic land use and climate change. Observing plants’ ecological relationships provides insights about how […]

For a link to this Zoom event, please email jdougripley@gmail.com

April's Chapter meeting will take place on Sunday, April 18th at 3:00 PM. Register at this link to join us in our virtual meeting room. Our guest speaker will be Jeny Davis, coordinator of the Desert Botanical Garden’s Metro Phoenix EcoFlora. Jeny will share details about the City Nature Challenge, a global competition which takes […]

Ashley Hall Yellow Bluestem (Bothriochloa ischaemum) is a perennial grass introduced to the United States from Europe and Asia in the early 1900s as a way to control erosion and as a forage species. In the past several years, this species has become an emerging invasive in Arizona, negatively affecting the habitats it invades in […]

sponsored by Audubon Southwest featuring Dara Saville an herbalist, geographer, writer, mother, and native plant advocate out of Albuquerque, New Mexico. The webinar will be held Thursday April 29th at 5 pm AZ time. There is a small donation requested. Find out more at  Webinar Registration | Audubon New Mexico.