Missouri Native Plant Society - St. Louis Chapter regular general meeting.
PROGRAM: Dodecatheon (Shooting Stars), by Dr. Brad Oberle, Research Associate at Missouri Botanical Garden.

Some of his work can be found at his website
http://www.dodecatheon.net/.

WHEN: 7:30 pm, Weds 26 January 2011

WHERE: Powder Valley Nature Center, 11715 Cragwold Road, Kirkwood, MO

Starting at the intersection of I-270 & I-44, travel east on I-44 a short distance//take the Watson Road exit lane. As soon as possible take the left turn lane when approaching Geyer Road.

Turn left(north) on Geyer Road. Travel less than 0.2 mile on Geyer Road and turn left(west) on to Cragwold Road(the first road on the left after crossing the I-44 overpass).

Travel west on Cragwold Road about 0.8 miles - to the entrance to Powder Valley Conservation Nature Center on the right.

Turn right and follow the road 0.4 mile to the Nature Center parking area.

Meeting rooms are in the large building on the west side of the parking lot. Entrance is via the southeast corner of this building. . The main lobby visitor entrance at the center of the complex is closed after 5 pm.
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For Area map, please visit:

<< http://mdc.mo.gov/documents/area_brochures/8709map.pdf >>

Navigation destination data:

N 38 degrees, 33 minutes, 22 seconds

W 90 degrees, 25 minutes 42 seconds

All interested parties are WELCOME. No fees, parking is free.

MONPS members find over 70 Eastern Prairie Fringed Orchids and a Wood Lily on a prairie in northern Missouri on a weekend when flooding made navigation tricky.

http://www.youtube.com/v/MwbEaFFRuy8&hl=en_US&fs=1&rel=0&hd=1

Spring MONPS Meeting
A few pictures from our weekend.

Slideshow

Pictures of July Flowers

Including trips to Brownsmead Gardens, Graham Cave State Park, Victoria Glades, Shaw Nature Reserve, Ketcherside Mountain Conservation Area, Taum Sauk Mountain State Park, Onondaga Cave State Park, and Johnson Shut-Ins State Park. Includes Hexalectris spicata (Crested Coral Root Orchid) and shots of the damage and current condition of Johnson Shut-Ins after the Taum Sauk Reservoir failure of December 2005.

Pictures of May Flowers

Including trips to Cuivre River State Park, Lon Sanders Canyon, Shannon County with Father James Sullivan, and a new population of Phlox carolina.

Pictures of April Flowers
Including pictures of the new orchid to the state!

March in Missouri

Shaw Nature Reserve, March 7, 2009

May brings even more beautiful Missouri wildflowers. I get out as much as my schedule permits and these are my photos from trips to Pickle Spring Natural Area, Shaw Nature Reserve, Valley View Glades Natural Area, and Razor Hollow Natural Area.

Early spring brings the first of the spring wildflowers. Here are a few shots of April flowers taken at Shaw Nature Reserve, Rockwoods Reservation, and Engelmann Woods Natural Area.