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  • Growing Native Plants from Seeds – Winter Sowing

    Saunderstown, RI

    Winter Sowing Native Plants On January 18, 2025 from 11 to 12:00 the Newport Public Library, Newport is offering a program on winter sowing. Learn all about growing native plant […]

  • Native Seed Winter Sowing Workshop

    Middletown Public Library 700 West Main Road, Middletown, RI

    Native Seed Winter Sowing Workshop Join the Aquidneck Land Trust, Rhode Island Wild Plant Society (RIWPS), and Middletown Public Library in this hands-on workshop and learn how to turn your yard or community space into an oasis for wildlife! Thursday, January 23 · 6 - 7:30pm EST Middletown Public Library 700 West Main Road, Middletown, […]

  • Growing Native Plants from Seeds – Winter Sowing

    Saunderstown, RI

    Winter Sowing Native Plants On January 25, 2025 from 10 to 11:30 at the Cross' Mills Public Library, Charlestown, learn all about growing native plant from seeds and get hands-on-experience […]

  • Winter Sowing Native Plants

    Chepachet, RI

    Winter Sowing Native Plants February 4 | 6 - 7 pm Harmony Library, Chepachet RI   Interested in learning how to grow your own native plants?  Our team will provide […]

  • Beechwood Lecture: Backyard Ecology

    Beechwood Center 44 Beach Street, North Kingstown, RI, United States

    Backyard Entomology: Who’s Who in Your Garden’s Ecosystem Wednesday February 19, 2025 | 2:00 – 3:00 PM Beechwood Center | 44 Beach Street | No Kingstown, RI 02852 Speaker: Pam Gilpin, Estate Gardener and Certified Horticulturist Insects play an essential role as  pollinators, predators and recyclers of decomposing animal and plant material. They are of […]

  • Annual Meeting & Guest Speaker

    University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI

     Experience the Lure of Observing Plants in Wild Places Annual Meeting & Guest Speaker March 1, 2025 | 1:00 to 4:00 pm URI Pharmacy Building (room 170) | Kingston RI Driving directions, parking, how to find the building and lecture hall   Meeting is free and open to the public. REGISTER below to let us […]

  • RIWPS Member Event: Virtual Book Discussion – Crossings

    Online

     Virtual Book Discussion (for RIWPS members only) Book: Crossings Discussion date: Sunday 16 March, 3:00 to 4:00 While the days are still short and the temperatures near freezing, let's read and then gather around our screens to discuss Ben Goldfarb's book Crossings: How Road Ecology is Shaping the Future of Our Planet. Goldfarb is an engaging, prize-winning writer. His […]

  • Calling plant enthusiasts!

    March 20 from 6 - 8 pm Chop - Culinary House of Providence 211 Washington Street Providence, RI 02903 RIWPS is excited to co-host an in-person social event with Providence Green Drinks, Grab a drink (or don't) and prepare to talk native plants! click here to get your ticket  

  • First Thursday Botanizing Walk: Snake Den Park

    Johnston, RI

    Join Christopher Modisette, State Resource Conservationist for the USDA-Natural Resources Conservation Service, Warwick, RI, from 10 to noon on April 3, 2025 for our first walk of the season. We will explore the Snake Den Farm parcel of Snake Den State Park in Johnston, RI. This parcel of Snake Den State Park, managed by the Northern […]

  • Find RIWPS at Tiverton Library Spring Garden Expo

    Tiverton, RI

    Find RIWPS at the Spring Garden Expo April 5, 2025 | 11 am to 3 pm Tiverton Public Library | 34 Roosevelt Ave. | Tiverton, RI This FREE annual event sponsored by the Tiverton Public Library features soil testing, free seeds, family activities, local experts including RIWPS members ready to address your questions about native […]

  • Beechwood Lecture: Get to Know the Rare Plants in Rhode Island

    Beechwood Center 44 Beach Street, North Kingstown, RI, United States

    GET TO KNOW THE RARE PLANTS OF RHODE ISLAND Wednesday April 16, 2025 | 1:30- 2:30 PM Beechwood Center | 44 Beach Street | No Kingstown, RI 02852 Sabatia kennedyana (Plymouth rose-gentian), South Kingstown, RI. State Endangered, photo DMcGrady Although small in size, Rhode Island has a wide range of ecological habitats that support a […]

  • Botanizing Adventure (Member Event)

    Richmond, RI

    Beaver River Field Visit Members can find details about this event in an email to them on March 26 (via Constant Contact) If you are a member and did not receive this email please contact office@riwps.org

  • Ecosystem Gardening with RI Native Wildflowers

    East Greenwich Library 82 Pierce Street, East Greenwich, Rhode Island

    Ecosystem Gardening with RI Native Wildflowers Come to a RIWPS presentation on April 22, 2025 at 6 pm for a talk at the East Greenwich Library 82 Pierce Street, East  Greenwich. Want to turn your backyard into a bio-diverse refuge for the plants, birds, pollinators and animals that share our planet? Come and learn about […]

  • Pollinator Night

    South Kingstown, RI

    Pollinator Night at the Glass Station April 24th, 2025 | 6-7:30pm Glass Station | 446 Main Street | South Kingstown RSVP required - see link below Join the URI Bee Lab, RIWPS, and The Glass Station to learn about our local bees and the importance of pollinating flowering native and crop plants as we discuss […]

  • Find RIWPS at Transforming the Landscape Symposium

    North Kingstown, RI

    Transforming the Landscape Supporting Native Plants and Pollinators Audubon's 2025 Transforming the Landscape symposium will feature workshops and lectures with scientists, master gardeners, and environmental organizations including RIWPS. Take advantage of the opportunity to purchase of some ecotypic seeds, including from some ReSeedingRI species. RIWPS' ReSeeding RI initiative aims to increase the supply of these […]

  • First Thursday Botanizing Walk: Grills Wildlife Sanctuary

    Bradford, RI

    Early blooms. Erythronium americanum ssp. americanum (American trout-lily), Grills, Westerly, RI Join biologist Denise Poyer on May 1 from 10 am to noon to discover early spring flowers at the Grills Wildlife Sanctuary in Bradford, RI. If our timing is right, we should see an abundance of the elusive trout lily, Erythronium americanum, a sweet […]

  • 2025 Spring Native Plant Sale

    Casey Farm, Saunderstown, RI 2325 Boston Neck Road, Saunderstown, RI, United States

    On May 10, 2025, starting at 9 am, find us at the Casey Farm, Farmers Market, 2325 Boston Neck Road, Saunderstown. For details about this sale and our other plant sales see our Native Plant Sales Page.

  • Edible Treasures -Trott-Perry Land Preserve

    Scituate RI

    Join a beginner-friendly, educational plant walk led by Keri Brule at Trott-Perry Land Preserve in Scituate, Rhode Island. This easy, accessible walk will take place mostly along an open field. We’ll focus on identifying early emerging and spring edible plants, exploring their habitats, uses, and sustainable foraging practices. No experience is required—just bring your curiosity […]

  • Spring in Arcadia: Ben Utter Trail

    Exeter, RI

    doll's eye, white baneberry (Actea pachypoda), photo KAsher Join biologist Denise Poyer on May 16 from 10am to noon on the Ben Utter Trail in Exeter RI. We will discover early spring flowers deep in the Arcadia Management Area. We will first walk south on Sand Trail to look for Indian cucumber root (Medeola virginiana), […]

  • Ecosystem Gardening with RI Native Wildflowers

    Providence, RI

    Ecosystem Gardening with RI Native Wildflowers May 20, 2025 | 5:30 pm A pollen-dusted Eastern Tiger Swallowtail butterfly (Papilio glaucus) on Lilium superbum (Turk's-cap lily) Rhode Island Historical Society| Aldrich House, 110 Benevolent Street | Providence 02906 Join the Rhode Island Historical Society  and the Wild Plant Society for a talk on how to use native […]

  • First Thursday Botanizing Walk: Simmons Mill Pond

    Little Compton, RI

    Join Roger Greene on June 5, 2025 from 10 am to noon to explore Simmons Mill Pond Management Area in Little Compton, RI. We’ll take a walk along the historic laneways through this globally rare Oak/Holly woodland. In early June we will see the transition from spring ephemerals which will be fruiting and going to […]

  • Walk: Basic Botanical Identifying Techniques Used in the Field

    Cranston, RI

    On June 7, 2025 from 10:00 am to noon, join Nathan Lambstrom, for a walk through the various ecosystems at George B. Parker Woodland Wildlife Refuge in Coventry RI. Participants will review basic identifying features of various native plants in leaf and flower, as well as practice the pattern recognition and other techniques used by […]

  • Walk – Wild Urban Plants of the Pawtuxet River

    Cranston, RI

    Join botanists Peter Del Tredici and Brian Maynard for an urban ecology walk on Tuesday, June 10, 2025, from 10 a.m. to noon, along the Pawtuxet River and through Oxboes State Park in Cranston. Peter Del Tredici, has written a field guide, Wild Urban Plants of the Northeast, featuring 268 common urban species – native […]

  • Plant Identification Workshop

    URI, Kingston, RI

    Hone your botanical observation skills and learn to identify plants! Join botanist Elizabeth Dickson for a workshop on how to key wildflowers using Newcomb's and GoBotany. Bring a copy of Newcomb's Wildflower Guide, a hand lens, and your cell phone, tablet or laptop. we will key out as many wildflowers as we can, and learn […]

  • First Thursday Botanizing Walk: Great Swamp Management Area

    West Kingston

    On July 10, 2025 ,from 10 to noon, join Brian Maynard, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus, Department of Plant Sciences & Entomology at the University of Rhode Island, in an exploration of the varied habitats found at the Great Swamp Management Area in West Kingston, RI. Ranging from oak-maple forest to wetlands and powerlines we are sure […]

  • Edible Treasures -Trott-Perry Land Preserve in the Summer

    Scituate RI

    On July 27, 2025  from 10 am to 11:30 join this beginner-friendly, educational plant walk led by Keri Brule at Trott-Perry Land Preserve in Scituate, Rhode Island.  We’ll focus on identifying summer edible plants, exploring their habitats, uses, and sustainable foraging practices. This easy, accessible walk will take place mostly along an open field.   […]

  • First Thursday Botanizing Walk: Fisherville Brook Wildlife Refuge (Exeter, RI)

    Exeter, RI

    Join Ethan Paiva & Nathan Archer from the Audubon Society of RI for a walk at Fisherville Brook Wildlife Refuge in Exeter, RI. on August 7, 2025, from 10 am to noon.  Come explore several different habitats including forest, fields and wetlands, observing birds, trees, plants and butterflies. Who knows what we will discover! This […]

  • Beechwood Lecture: Mushroom Hunting – Summer Session

    Beechwood Center 44 Beach Street, North Kingstown, RI, United States

    Mushroom Hunting: Summer Session Wednesday August 20, 2025 | 1:15- 2:45 PM Beechwood Center | 44 Beach Street | No Kingstown, RI 02852 On August 20, 2024 from 1:15 to 2:45, join Ryan Bouchard and Emily Schmidt from the Mushroom Hunting Foundation at the Beechwood Center for Life in North Kingstown, RI to learn about […]

  • CANCELLED -First Thursday Botanizing Walk: Avondale Farm Preserve

    Westerly, RI

    Eutrochium fistulosum (hollow Joe-Pye weed) with monarch, photo DMcGrady This walk is cancelled due to illness. On September 4, 2025  from 10am to noon, join Marc Doherty, Westerly Land Trust's (WLT) Land Stewardship Manager for a slow walk around the coastal grasslands, shrublands and salt marsh at Westerly Land Trust's founding property,  Avondale Farm Preserve. […]

  • 2025 Fall Native Plant Sale

    Rhodes on the Pawtuxet 60 Rhodes Place, Cranston

    On September 6, 2025, from 10 am noon,  find us at the Pawtuxet Village Farmer's Market, 60 Rhodes Place, Cranston, RI Note: Members Presale 9 am to 10 am   Not already a member?  Join now For details about this sale and our other plant sales see our Native Plant Sales Page.

  • Basic Botanical Identifying Field Techniques: Trees, Shrubs, and Vines (Carter Preserve)

    Kingston, RI

    On September 13, 2025 from 10:00 am to noon, join Nathan Lambstrom at the Carter Preserve in Charlestown. We will use commonly available field guides to hone our ability to identify unknown trees, shrubs, and vines. The walk will traverse several ecosystem types and offer a chance to see some familiar and unfamiliar plants in […]

  • Check out ReSeeding RI foundation plots! Native Plant Walk and Talk – Spruce Acres Farm

    RIWPS's ReSeeding Rhode Island partners at the Aquidneck Island Land Trust (AILT) will be holding a Native Plant Walk and Talk at Spruce Acres Farm on Wednesday evening, September 17, 2025 from 5 to 6 pm.  Spruce Acre Farm is where the narrow leaved mountain mint and blue vervain ReSeeding foundation plots can be viewed.  Each participant can take […]

  • First Thursday Botanizing Walk: Neutaconkanut Hill Park

    Providence, RI

    On October 2, 2025  from 10 am to noon, join Joe Jamroz, environmental enthusiast and advisory board member for the Neutaconkanut Hill Conservancy. We will  explore parts of this conserved property and enjoy spectacular views of Providence. Rising nearly 300 feet above Narragansett Bay, the park is situated in the heart of the most densely […]

  • Beechwood Lecture: – Misunderstood Arboricultural Practices: Getting it Right

    Beechwood Center 44 Beach Street, North Kingstown, RI, United States

    GETTING IT RIGHT MISUNDERSTOOD ARBORICULTURAL PRACTICES Wednesday October 15, 2025 | 1:30- 2:30 PM Beechwood Center | 44 Beach Street | No Kingstown, RI 02852 photo DMcGrady Tree expert, Chris Fletcher, will discuss commonly misunderstood practices for caring for your trees including pruning, root collars, wood chip mulch, irrigation, cabling practices and root invigoration practices […]

  • Test Associated Event

    Fort Barton Lawton Ave & Highland Rd, Tiverton, RI, United States

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  • Identifying Common Invasive Plants Walk – Narragansett

    Narragansett, RI

    Asian Bittersweet, photo from Invasive Plants: The Threat They Pose  On 26 October 2025 from 1:00 to 3 pm, Tom Hoagland, President, Friends of Canonchet, and Alan Woodmansee, Master Gardener, will lead a guided trail walk in Canonchet Farm, a 124 acre second growth woodland that has become infested with invasive plants, shrubs and vines. […]

  • Local Native Seed Sowing Workshop – Rhode Island Wild Plant Society/ReSeeding RI

    South Kingstown, RI

    Learn the secrets to growing native plants from seeds - and why local matters. photo GGardner The Farmer’s Daughter, South Kingstown, RI Sunday, 11/2/25 from 10:00 - 12:00 Advance registration required - Fee $20.00    Native plants are easy to grow from seeds and this is the perfect time to get started! Learn why growing […]

  • 2025 SE New England Native Seed Exchange: Sharing, Learning and Connecting

    Tillinghast Place 230 Nyatt Rd, Barrington, RHode Island

    RIWPS' initiative ReSeeding RI will be participating in this event! SE New England Native Seed Exchange - November 9, 2025 12:00 - 3:00 pm  Tillinghast Place, Barrington RI 231 Nayatt Rd, Barrington, RI 02806   The SE New England Native Seed Exchange is for anyone interested in native plants, including folks who are new to […]

  • Lisa Lofland Gould Program – Forests in a Changing Climate: Impact on Trees and Ecosystems

    URI Kingston, RI

    Forests in a Changing Climate: Impacts on Trees and Ecosystems with Dr. Ali Kosiba Lisa Lofland Gould Program This program is underwritten by the Lisa Lofland Gould Native Plant Program Fund and sponsored by Rhode Island Wild Plant Society,  Rhode Island Natural History Survey and University of Rhode Island Master Gardener Program.  Saturday, December 6, 2025 1:00 pm […]

  • Workshop – Winter Sowing Native Plants (Newport, RI)

    Newport, RI

    Interested in learning how to grow your own native plants? A team of gardeners from The Rhode Island Wild Plant Society and Master Gardeners from Kettle Pond and Trustom Pond projects will provide gardeners with the materials and information needed to winter sow native plants.  Gardeners will sow seeds into a gallon milk jug and […]

  • Native Seed Winter Sowing Workshop (Middletown, RI)

    Middletown Public Library 700 West Main Road, Middletown, RI

      Native Seed Winter Sowing Workshop Join the Aquidneck Land Trust, Rhode Island Wild Plant Society (RIWPS), and Middletown Public Library in this hands-on workshop. Learn how to turn your yard or community space into an oasis for wildlife! Thursday, January 22, 2026 · 5:30 - 7:o0pm  Middletown Public Library 700 West Main Road, Middletown, […]

  • Growing Native Seeds and Plants with the Rhode Island Wild Plant Society

    Online

    Growing Native: Successes, Setbacks, and Seeds Friday, January 30, 2026 1:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. online   Join this program , organized by the Association to Preserve Cape Cod to get caught up with RIWPS propagation efforts.   Sue Theriault, leader of RIWPS ecotypic seed program, ReSeeding RI, has propagating seed at RIWPS since 2018,.  In […]

  • Workshop – Winter Sowing Native Plants (Charlestown, RI)

    Kingston, RI

    Interested in learning how to grow your own native plants? A team of gardeners from The Rhode Island Wild Plant Society and Master Gardeners from Kettle Pond and Trustom Pond projects will provide gardeners with the materials and information needed to winter sow native plants.  Gardeners will sow seeds into a gallon milk jug and […]

  • Beechwood Lecture: Native Plant Trends in the Nursery World

    Beechwood Center 44 Beach Street, North Kingstown, RI, United States

    Focus on Native and Sustainable Plants Wednesday February 18, 2026 | 1:30- 2:30 PM Beechwood Center | 44 Beach Street | No Kingstown, RI 02852   Jane Case, owner of Blue Moon Farm Perennials will highlight newly developed and other favorite plants. Blue Moon Farm Perennials is home to the " largest diversity of quality […]

  • Plant It Forward – Supporting Pollinators with Native Plants

    Bristol, RI

    Supporting Pollinators with Native Plants Spring is around the corner!  Learn how you can enhance your garden with native plants. Eutrochium fistulosum (hollow Joe-Pye weed) with monarch, photo DMcGrady Thursday 19, 2026 | 5 to 7 pm Rogers Free Library  | 523 Hope St.| Bristol, RI The program includes Sue Theriault from RIWPS' ReSeeding RI […]

  • Annual Meeting 2026: Guest Speaker Arthur Haines

    University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI

    How Science, Fieldwork, and Time Reshape Our Understanding of New England’s Flora Annual Meeting & Guest Speaker Arthur Haines February 28, 2026 | 1:00 to 4:00 pm URI Pharmacy Building (room 170) | Kingston RI Driving directions, parking, how to find the building and lecture hall   Schedule • 1:00 pm - Refreshments and Fellowship […]

  • Basic Botanical Identifying Techniques Used in the Field — Winter woody (Kingston)

    Kingston, RI

    On March 14, 2026, from 10:00 am to noon, join Nathan Lambstrom for a walk through URI’s North Woods, focusing on techniques and features we can use to identify trees in winter. For better or worse, many of our woody plants do not have leaves for most of the year. That doesn’t mean there’s nothing […]

  • Tidal Salt Marsh Walk at Lathrop Wildlife Refuge (Westerly)

    Westerly, RI

    Join us on March 26, 2026, from 11:30 an to 1:30 pm, to explore Audubon's Lathrop Wildlife Refuge on the shore of Winnapaug Pond, Westerly, RI. Salt marshes and salt ponds are both sensitive and resilient Rhode Island habitats. Scott Ruhren, Ph.D., Senior Director of Conservation, Audubon Society of Rhode Island will lead us around […]

  • Beechwood Lecture: Pollinating the Planet on an Individual Basis

    Beechwood Center 44 Beach Street, North Kingstown, RI, United States

    Bottle gentian with bumblebee Pollinating the Planet on an Individual Basis Wednesday April 15, 2026 | 1:30- 2:30 PM Beechwood Center | 44 Beach Street  | North Kingstown, RI 02852 Steve Burke, […]

  • Pollinator Night at the Glass Station (South Kingstown)

    South Kingstown, RI

    Local Bees: Pollinating Native Plants and Agricultural Crops Limited free spaces available, RSVP required. RSVP is through the Glass Station.  CLICK HERE Join the URI Bee Lab, Rhode Island Wild […]