We’ll look at various germination strategies of the ephemerals and how flowers and their pollinators have co evolved together in a rich interplay of strategies, tactics and syndromes

THIS HIKE HAS BEEN POSTPONED UNTIL MONDAY, MARCH 18, at 8:00 am.  Rain has been forecast for Friday, and so the trip is being delayed. Early Spring Wildflowers, Canyon Loop Trail, Catalina State Park, 8:00 am with Lyn Loveless.  This is an unhurried 2-mile hike mostly on flat terrain (one long up and one long down) […]

Spring Growth. Waterman Restoration Area, Ironwood Forest NM, 8:00 am with John Scheuring and Andrew Gourevitch.  Stroll through this impressive desert restoration site on a limestone foothill slope snuggled at the base of the Waterman Mountains.   Fourteen years after getting a monoculture of buffelgrass under control and installing passive water harvesting, we will see many of the […]

Saguaros Like You Have Never Seen Them.  West Avra Valley Road, 20 mile car loop.  8:00 am with John Scheuring.  Fifteen-person limit. We will carpool west on Avra Valley Rd 20 miles with four stops for an eye opening learning tour about saguaros and their associated native plants. This will include a half mile slow hike through desert filled […]

Tuesday, March 19, 7:00 PM: Catherine Young. The Efficacy of Using Terminal and Axillary Bud Cuttings as a Means of Propagation for the Endemic Alpine Species Packera franciscana Hybrid meeting: In-person and via Zoom Highgate Senior Living Center at 1831 N Jasper Dr. on McMillan Mesa. Park anywhere in the parking lot or on the street. […]

Tiny to Huge Native Plants.  Upper Romero Canyon and Green Pirate Rock, 8:00 am with John Scheuring.  Fourteen-person limit.  This slow hike will traverse actively growing riparian areas, desert grassland, and saguaro-studded bajadas as we learn about key plant species in each habitat and dynamic plant successions now in progress. We’ll also see desert blooming wildflowers. We will […]

Saturday, March 23, 10:00 - 11:30 am “Nonnative, Invasive Plants of Gila County“ will be  presented  by Chris Jones from the Gila County Cooperative Extension at the Tonto Basin Chamber of Commerce, 45675 N Arizona Hwy 188, Tonto Basin, AZ 85553

Carpets of Desert Spring Flowers on Ragged Top in Ironwood NM, 8:00 am.  Fifteen-person limit. Join AZNPS member John Scheuring on a slow drive with many stops and a short but steep and rocky hike in the pristine foothills of Ragged Top on Ironwood Forest NM. We will see amazing swathes of blooming Gordon Bladderpod, Mexican […]

A Wildflower Hike on the Sutherland Trail, Catalina State Park, 8:00 am with Lyn Loveless.  This slow 3 mile hike will follow the Sutherland Trail out and back, through a varied landscape with some easy hills.  We hope to see a diversity of lovely spring wildflowers.  Meet at the tile mosaic at the main Catalina State Park trailhead.  To […]