GNPS News & Announcements
2024 Plant of the Year: Blue Mistflower
By Valerie Boss The GNPS 2024 Plant of the Year is blue mistflower (Conoclinium coelestinum), a native perennial wildflower with beautiful blue or purplish blossoms. A member of the Asteraceae family, the species can be found throughout the eastern US and parts of...
Weed Wrangle Georgia 2024 on January 15
GNPS will host our first ever statewide "Weed Wrangle" on January 15th, MLK Jr. Day of Service. Weed Wrangle is a one-day, area-wide, volunteer effort to help rescue our public parks and green spaces from non-native invasive species through hands-on removal of...
Celebrating 2023’s Collective Impact
What an exciting year it has been for Georgia Native Plant Society! Take a look below at what we have accomplished. While GNPS continues to grow its signature programs, develop key partnerships and provide centralized support to our chapter network, our 8 affiliated...
Annual Meeting Report
Thank you to the more than 100 chapter members and friends of GNPS who joined us for our 2023 annual meeting last Sunday at the Kendeda Living Building at Georgia Tech. Over the course of two hours, we shared updates from our second full year as a chapter; broke out...
Vote for the GNPS 2024 Plant of the Year!
Each year, we celebrate one special native plant by selecting it as GNPS Plant of the Year (POY). The six nominated plants are featured below. POY online voting is EASY. Just go to the voting page*, click to make your selection, and press "Submit." (If you are not...
Georgia Gives on Giving Tuesday is November 28th!
GivingTuesday is a global generosity movement where people and nonprofits team up to transform their communities through giving. GNPS programs are transforming Georgia's landscape every day! GNPS habitat restoration work is decreasing invasive plants on our public...
Plant Conservationists’ Virtual Rally on November 13
Calling all plant lovers! Join us on Monday, November 13 at 2:00 p.m. for a national virtual rally to support plant conservation! We need everyone interested in plant conservation to rally together for the passage of the Recovering America’s Wildlife Act. GNPS has...
Heritage Park September 2023 Work Day Report
The September 9 work day featured beautiful weather as well as three first-time volunteers! There was a lot of sand, trash, and tree litter in our creekside work area from recent flooding, so our group did a cleanup and filled four trash bags (see photo). Some...
GNPS Plant of the Year 2024 Nominations Open October 9 at 7 p.m.
The GNPS Plant of the Year (POY) program recognizes native plants that are of benefit to Georgia’s ecology and wildlife. If you are a GNPS member and have a favorite native plant that you think others would love, please consider nominating it for our POY 2024. Traits...
Fall Plant Sales
Each year we like to make you aware of seasonal native plant sales. Here is a list of all that we've collected from one end of Georgia to the other (including Chattanooga for those in the very north). Most of them are dedicated to native plants but a few have a mix;...
