The MN wildflower blog

Today, Minnesota’s Wildflowers submitted their 2010 Legislative funding initiative to Senator Satveer Chaudhary, Chairman of the Senate’s Natural Resources Committee, requesting $300,000.00 for the Minnesota Department of Agriculture’s state weed program.

I’m already planning what I’d like to do next season. Near the top of the list is visiting more of the Scientific and Natural Areas (SNAs) around the state, and more state parks. There are several not far from the Metro that would make a great day trip, but I hope to get to other parts of the state as well.

Anyone interested in joining me for a wildflower walk? Do you know a good place to have one? If so, post a comment to this post, or contact me privately if you prefer.

I am already planning a wildflower walk in the spring at Carlos Avery, for the Northern Metro MN Master Naturalist Volunteers monthly meeting. Should be fun.

MinnesotaWildflowers.info now has its own Facebook page. For those of you who don’t know it yet, I’ve decided to go ahead and write that field guide I always wished I had. Updates on its progress and some previews will be posted there. Suggestions and feedback from fans are welcome.

Check out the Discussion board while you are there, too.

I really wish I had time to do regular field reports, but sadly I don’t. If anyone else is interested in contributing to this, please let me know. Thanks, and hope you enjoy the rest of the site.

Something I wanted to do last year but didn’t get around to it is posting short field reports after an outing. So I’m starting it now. I hope I can keep it up. I expect to post to this category once or twice a week.

I take a lot of pictures and spend a significant amount of time researching the plants I’ve found. Sometimes, though, a plant doesn’t match anything I find in either books or on the web. I’ll post the unidentified plants here and hope someone will be able to help figure out what it is.

There may be other uses for a blog in the future, but this is all I have time for at the moment.