General Meeting & Guest Lecture

URI, Coastal Institute (Weaver Auditorium) 1 Greenhouse Road, Kingston, RI, United States

Big & Little Bluestem, Michigan roadside. Photo Rhobin's Garden Blog Meadows of Native Warm-Season Grasses and Forbs Coming to New England's Roadsides? A major research project of the New England Transportation Consortium (NETC), funded by the Department of Transportation in all six New England states, aims to find the most affordable, reliable, and expeditious methods for establishing meadows of […]

Wild Ideas about Wild Plants

Biomedical Center, Brown University, Room 291 171 Meeting Street , Providence

Grace Donnelly is a cytogeneticist.  She studies how chromosomes behave during cell division, pollen formation, and at other times in the life cycle of the plant. Such cytogenetic studies can clarify the identity of the plant and its relation to other plants. For Grace, RIWPS Native Plant Symposium: Growing Awareness triggered thoughts about how biological concepts have changed […]

Annual Meeting & Guest Lecture

Audubon Environmental Education Center 1401 Hope Street, Bristol

Landscaping with Natives: They Are Tougher Than You Think Native plants are becoming increasingly popular for creating sustainable and ecologically vibrant landscapes. Designers and landscapers sometimes think that these species might not survive the tough growing conditions associated with commercial and institutional landscapes, foundation plantings, or other challenging sites. Yet many native species will perform […]

Free

General Meeting & Lecture

North Kingstown Free Library 100 Boone Street, North Kingstown, RI

BROWN UNIVERSITY HERBARIUM: A Resource for Appreciating, Studying & Protecting Our Native Plants Brown University Herbarium offers a priceless snapshot of botanical life, in Rhode Island and across the nation and the world, in the 19th and early 20th centuries. It serves as an important resource to the scientific community for studies of climate change, […]

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January General Meeting & Lecture

Rhode Island Historical Society, Aldrich House 110 Benevolent Street, Providence, RI

Salt Marsh Habitats Strategies for Adapting to Sea Level Rise Many of Rhode Island’s salt marshes are not keeping pace with accelerated sea level rise, showing signs of degradation including die off of vegetation, shallow, impounded water on the marsh surface and unstable peat conditions. Wenley Ferguson, Director of Habitat Restoration at Save the Bay, will […]

30th Annual Meeting & Guest Speaker – Lisa Lofland Gould

URI Pharmacy Building, Room 170 7 Greenhouse Road, Kingston, RI

Back to Our Roots: Being Wild About Wild Plants In celebration of RIWPS 30th Anniversary, Lisa Lofland Gould, founding member and first president of RIWPS will address the question, Why should anyone care about plants, and especially about that seemingly obscure and often subtle flora we Wild Folks so enjoy?  She will consider the pivotal […]