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Monthly Meetings
The Citrus Chapter of the Florida Native
Plant Society will have their next meeting at 7pm on Tuesday May 6th at the Beverly Hills Lions Club in Beverly Hills.The speaker for the evening will be Carla Groleau from Progress Energy. She will present a program regarding the new nuclear power plants and power line corridors in the Citrus County area.
There will also be a plant of the month talk plus updates on various nature activities in the Citrus County area. We conclude our meeting with a plant raffle with over twenty five species of native plants grown for the Citrus County area.
Our meeting is open to anyone who has an interest in Florida nature.
Directions to the meeting:
Beverly Hills Lions Club
72 Civic Circle
From CR 491, go East on Beverly Hills Blvd. until it meets Civic Circle. [map]
For further information:
Call Jim Bierly at 382-3365.
The society is open to anyone who has an interest in native plants
or those who just enjoy the great outdoors of Citrus County. Meetings
are usually held on the 1st Tuesday of the month. Our meetings
are informal and the public is welcome to attend. It is not necessary
to be a member. Just come & find out what it's all about!
Some of the educational programs we have had are:
Native Violets
The Birds and the Bees: what your mother never told you
Florida's Gulf Coast: Amazing Treasures and Daunting Threats
Hammocks of the Withlacoochee State Forest
How the State of Florida Got Its Name
Florida CAPS Program (Cooperative Agricultural Pest Survey)
Scrub and Sandhill Restoration
Bats of Florida
Exotics
Wildflowers
Prescribed Burns
Plant Propagation
Butterflies
Reptiles & Amphibians
Coastal Eco Systems
Black Bears
Wild Orchids of Florida
Honey Bees
Rare and Endangered Plants
Incredible Wild Edibles
Plants and Wildlife in Ross
Prairie State Forest
The Effects of Prescribed Burning on Herpetofauna
in Upland Pine Communities
A Brief History of the Public Lands of
Citrus County
Comparative Behavior of Insects and other
Animals with Plants
Earthworms: How to Raise Them to Enhance
the Soil in Your Growing Areas
Plant Care for Indoor Plants and the Proper Soils for Potted Plants
Our Plant of the Month talks have described:
2007
Florida Mountainmint
Sky Blue Lupine
Gary's Prickly Pear Cactus
Dogwood (Cornus florida)
Butterfly-weed (Asclepias tuberosa)
Spotted Horsemint (Monarda punctata)
2006:
Native Rhododendruns
Wild Pennyroyal (Piloblephis rigida)
Innocence Plant (Hedyotis procumbens)
Simpson Stopper
Winged Elm
Virginia Willow
Mimosa strigillosa
Viburnum dentatum
Rusty Lyonia
Carphephorus paniculatus
Wax Myrtle
2005:
Native Porterweed (Stachytarpheta jamaicensis)
Possumhaw, Witherod, or Appalachian Tea (Viburnum
nudum )
Yellow Anise (Illicium parviflorum)
Polypodium fern
Coreopsis leavenworthii and Coreopsis lancelota
Bloodberry or Rougeplant (Rivina humilis)
Coral honeysuckle (Lonicera sempervirens)
Wild Poinsettia (Poinsettia cyathophora)
Southern ladies' tresses (Spiranthes torta)
Sweet Acacia (Acacia farnesiana)
Pineland Gayfeather or Pineland Blazingstar
(Liatris garberi)
2004:
Hollies
Passion Vine
Hard coated seeds
Coontie/Garbaria
Poly podium fern
Oakleaf Hydrangea
Green Eyes
Conradina brevifolia
Scrub St John's Wort
Pawpaw
Blue Eyed Grass
Persimmon
Firebush
2003:
Dwarf Wax Myrtle
Dwarf Walter's Viburnum
Saw Palmetto
Coontie
Rusty Lyonia
Tarflower
Spicebush
Silver Croton
Gopher Apple
Goldenrod
Red Cedar
2002:
Beach sunflower
Pennyroyal
Swamp sunflower
Climbing Aster
Swamp Sneezeweed
Sweet Bay Magnolia
Chickasaw Plum
Sensitive Plant
Liatris
Wild Lime
Rattlesnake Master
2001:
Cabbage Palm
Passion Vine
Wild Poinsettia
Sparkleberry
Beautyberry
Redbud
Cherry Laurel
"Unplant" (invasive exotic) talks included:
Floating bladderwort
Coral Ardesia
Skunk Vine
Cogon Grass
Chinese Tallow
Catclaw Mimosa
Asparagus Fern
Air Potato
Nandina
Water-hyacinth
Camphor Tree
Ligustrm Sinense
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