Utah Native Plant Field Trips

This Post includes information from upcoming field trips for the Utah Native Plant Society.  There will be access to any pre-trip notes and follow up information, when available, will be provided after the trips have been competed

2020 Field Trip Schedule

Final schedule and dates to be determined


Wildflower Photography Field Trip
March - Steve Hegji - field trip leader will teach some basics for how to get the best photos of wildflowers and plants.  Trip will be held early so skills can be used throughout the summer.

West Desert Wildflowers
Early April - Field trip to see one of, if not the only population of Douglas' glasswidow (Olsynium douglasii) known in Utah.

Monte Cristo & Rich County
Early June - In addition to seeing a variety of early summer wildflowers, we will visit a rare population for Sticky Polemonium (Polemonium viscosum) at lower elevations than previously known.

Summer Wildflowers
July - location to be determined.

UNDER CONSTRUCTION: Keys to Some Common (and a few not-so-common) Plants of the Wasatch Mountains & Bear River Range

Welcome to the blog site devoted to the weekend botanists who are trying to identify some of the plants that occur in the Wasatch Mountains and the Bear River Range of Northern Utah and southeastern Idaho. Pages to the right include keys to a few of the genera.  Photos are (or will be) included as well, and descriptions will be added as this blog is developed.  More keys will continue to be added as they are created and refined. Higher quality PDFs of the keys will replace those that are currently available.  Please provide constructive feedback on things that either don't work well in the keys or things that are just plain wrong. Positive feedback is also welcome.

Western Blue Virginsbower (Clematis occidentalis) near Mount Naomi in the Bear River Range in northern Utah