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.

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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.

In early April, we went to Arkansas for a joint meeting with the Arkansas Native Plant Society. Their members were very congenial hosts, and the field trips they organized were great. Here are a few pictures I took during our visit, April 3-6, 2008.
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