California Native Plant Society, North Coast Chapter

10/14/2026

🌳 TONIGHT! Pando: Life on the Boundary of Discovery and Imagination

What if the world's largest tree was actually an entire forest connected by a single root system?

Join the North Coast Chapter of the California Native Plant Society tonight for a fascinating presentation by Lance Oditt exploring Pando, the extraordinary aspen clone in Utah. Considered the world's largest tree by landmass and weight, Pando also ranks among Earth's oldest living organisms.

Lance will share what makes this ancient living wonder so unique and the work being done to understand and protect it.

📅 Wednesday, October 14
📍 D Street Neighborhood Center, 1301 D Street, Arcata
🕕 Doors open at 5:45 PM
🍪 Socializing and snacks at 6 PM
🌲 Presentation begins at 6:30 PM

💻 Can't attend in person? Register for Zoom at https://northcoastcnps.org/

🎨 BONUS EVENT — TOMORROW!
Forest of the Imagination
Thursday, October 15 | 6:30–7:30 PM
📍 Flamingo Room, Sequoia Park Zoo, Eureka

Lance Oditt returns for a special slideshow exploring the role of art in forest conservation, past and present, with an emphasis on our magnificent redwood forests.

Two evenings exploring the science, beauty, and imagination that connect us to trees. We hope to see you there!

10/09/2026

09/09/2026

Our chapter’s fall plant sale is 9/26 & 9/27. To sign up for the Saturday sale & for an updated inventory of plants available, visit the nursery website below. Sunday is open to the public.

09/04/2026

🌿 Growing the next generation of botanists!

This summer, the North Coast Chapter of CNPS helped send botanists Jenni Hedin and Annie Allen into the Klamath Mountains for a week of science, exploration, and discovery with 12 local teens.

Working alongside the trip leaders at Ascend Wilderness Experience, with the Bigfoot Trail Alliance, and other regional partners, students explored Darlingtonia fens, studied foxtail and whitebark pines, completed a vegetation survey, pressed plant specimens, investigated lichens, surveyed frogs, and learned directly from scientists working in the field.

Experiences like these are about more than learning plant names. They teach young people to slow down, look closely, ask questions, and discover just how much is happening in the landscapes around them.

Learning to notice is where stewardship begins. 🌲🔎

Read the full story and see what they discovered with the link in the comments.

05/16/2026

🌿 defendiendo las plantas nativas del condado de Humboldt a toda costa 💚

¿cuál estarías defendiendo tú?

05/13/2026

Botanical Areas of the Siskiyou Crest presentation May 13th in Arcata with the California Native Plant Society, North Coast Chapter! More information here: https://northcoastcnps.org/

05/12/2026

Currently blooming in the “Bulb guy’s” yard, an amazing 36” tall Fritillary affinis, know as Mission Bells or Checker Lily, with approximately 30 blooms.

05/01/2026

Four students. Four ecosystems. One shared purpose 🌿

From kelp forests shaped by warming seas, to dunes rebuilding from below, to the hidden microbes inside carnivorous plants, to the quiet rhythms of intertidal algae—this year’s CNPS North Coast Student Grant recipients are asking the questions that help us care for place.

Their work reminds us: the future of native plants is being studied, shaped, and stewarded right here.

04/30/2026

Art Night this Full Moon Friday, May 1, at the Wildflower Show. Artists will create choosing any of the collected Wildflowers during an inspiring evening 7-9. Hosted by Patricia Sennott & Annie Reid