In this issue See all the photo Rare Plant Conference...... 1 contest winners beginning on Greetings from the President ...... 2 page 8. INPS State News...... 3 Annual Meeting Registration Form...... 4 Photo Contest Winners...... 8 ERIG Donations Welcome...... 11 INPS Chapter News...... 12 Dates to Rare Plant Profile...... 15 remember June 20-22, 2014: INPS and Eriogonum Society Rare Plant Conference late, but still great Annual Meeting, Twin Falls The 2013 Rare Plant Conference was delayed a few months thanks to the partial government shutdown last fall, but the wait was worth it. Over the course of two days in late February, attendees discussed recommendations June 26-29, 2014: made by the Northern and Southern Idaho Rare Plant Working Groups and also heard 2014 Idaho presentations highlighting research and conservation projects. Botanical Foray to “We heard a lot of good presentations,” said Beth Corbin, conference coordinator. (We northern Nevada hope to bring summaries of some of those presentations to future issues of Sage Notes). She also encouraged INPS members to join a rare plant working group or join in the INPS Rare Plant Working Group Forum. “Not everyone can travel (to the biennial Rare Plant Conference) but everyone can participate in the process.” Alexa DiNicola, from the College of Idaho, presented a step-by-step guide for submitting or posting information to the INPS Rare Plant Forum. Each proposed rare plant has its own thread, or conversation, within the forum. “The more these forums are used, the more useful they are,” DiNicola said. Derek Antonelli agreed and added that navigating the forum is really easy to figure out. He suggested searching for the species you are interested in first to make sure a thread hasn’t already been started. If one has, you can join in that discussion. The Forum is a secure site so you will have to register and be verified by the administrator before you can join in the online discussions. To start that process, go to: http://inpsrareplants.forumatic.com/index.php. IDAHO NATIVE Corbin also surveyed participants to see what they would like to see in the 2015/2016 PLANT SOCIETY Rare Plant Conference. If you would like to help plan the next conference, talk to Corbin. Volume 36 (1) The 2014 conference was sponsored by the following organizations:

Articles contributed to Sage Notes reflect the views of the authors and are not an official position of the Idaho Native Plant Society. Read Sage Notes online at www.idahonativeplants.org/news/Newsletters.aspx 1 IDAHO NATIVE Greetings from the President PLANT SOCIETY Dear Idaho Native Plant Society Members, PO Box 9451 2014 is a year of special opportunities for the members of INPS. Boise, ID 83707 On Feb 26 & 27 we had the Rare Plant Conference in Boise. Thanks to all Email: who participated and to the Pahove Chapter for all the hard work to make it a success. This conference was a special challenge for them as they had [email protected] to plan it twice. The second time become necessary because of the federal government shut down in October. Website: On June 20-22, INPS will hold its annual meeting in Twin Falls. We are www.idahonativeplants.org especially fortunate to be able to combine with the Eriogonum Society for this meeting. The combined meeting will provide a unique learning opportunity for INPS members. The meeting will include two classes – one INPS BOARD MEMBERS on Eriogonum (wild buckwheat) identification given by Dr. James Reveal President: LaMar Orton of Cornell University and a second on buckwheat seed collecting, cleaning Vice-president: Stephen Love and cultivation given by Dr. Stephen Love, of the University of Idaho - Aberdeen R & E Center. Dr. Love has collected seed and raised many Secretary: Alan Crockett types of buckwheats at the Aberdeen R & E Center as well as at his own Treasurer: Elaine Walker garden. Dr. Reveal has prepared a field guide to Eriogonum and related Past-president: Janet Benoit genera in Idaho, which all meeting attendees will receive. Member-at-Large: Mel Nicholls There will also be two days of field trips into rich buckwheat areas in the Magic Valley. That will provide us the opportunity to put our newly acquired Chapter Presidents are also members of the INPS Board identification skills and field guide to good use. The post meeting tour to the Craters of the Moon National Monument will give us the opportunity to see, among other native plants, an endemic buckwheat found only in the STANDING COMMITTEES Monument. Elsewhere in this issue of Sage Notes you will find an in-depth Conservation Committee Chair description of the annual meeting activities and the registration form. Don’t Derek Antonelli (Calypso) miss this special opportunity! INPS is still in need of members willing to participate in various positions Karie Pappani (Pahove) on committees and in leadership positions. It is always amazing how much we learn by sharing our talents through active participation in the 2014 Meeting Chair organization. If you would like to serve in any way in the INPS organization, LaMar Orton (Loasa) please let me know by emailing me at [email protected] or by calling me at 208-734-7959. Looking forward to seeing you all in Twin Falls. ERIG Chair Janet Bala (Sawabi) LaMar N. Orton INPS President Newsletter Editor Cindy Snyder

AD HOC COMMITTEES Nominating Committee Volunteers needed

2013 Photo Contest Committee Pahove Chapter

Rare Plant Conference Chair White Pine Chapter at Phillips Farm in October. Grassy Ridge: Tim Hatten, Al Poplawsky, Jo Bohna, guide Lee Anne Eareckson, Rod Beth Corbin (Pahove) Kevin & Elisabeth Brackney, Jill Maxwell, Jim Sprague, Sid Eder, Terry Gray, Susan Rounds, Huggins, lead botanist Pam Brunsfeld & perfect Mary Conitz, LoriBeth or Lisa, Elisabeth 2 sheltie. Photo: White Pine Chapter. Brackney. 2 Sage Notes is a publication of the Idaho Native Plant Society Vol. 36 (1) March 2014 INPS State News Sage Notes, the newsletter of the Idaho Native Plant Society Registration Information for is published in February, May, September and December. INPS/Eriogonum Society Annual Meeting Current and recent past issues are posted in full color online at by LaMar Orton www.idahonativeplants.org/ 2014 Meeting Arrangements Chair news/Newsletters.aspx along Welcome to South-Central Idaho! with a searchable index of 2006- The 2014 Eriogonum Society meeting will be centered in Twin Falls, Idaho, giving 2010 issues. We are scanning and us the opportunity to explore the botanical and geological wonders of the middle uploading older issues as time Snake River Plain, including the Bennett Hills and Gooding City of Rocks, the South allows. Hills (southern Sawtooth National Forest) and the Craters of the Moon. This will be a joint meeting of the Idaho Native Plant Society and the Eriogonum Society, Submissions: Members giving us the opportunity to make new friends and take advantage of the cumulative and non-members may submit knowledge of accomplished professional and amateur botanists, including Dr. James material for publication. Relevant Reveal, noted expert on the genus Eriogonum. articles, essays, poetry, news, announcements, photographs and Meeting Dates artwork are welcome. Authors, The meeting is scheduled for Friday, June 20 through Sunday, June 22, with an artists and photographers retain optional post-meeting tour of Craters of the Moon National Monument and Fish copyright to their work and are Creek Canyon on Monday, June 23. credited in Sage Notes. Send all submissions electronically to the editor at the link below. The Region Twin Falls is located in the center of the Snake River Plain and is the largest city in the Magic Valley of south-central Idaho (elevation, 3,750 feet; population 47,000). Submission guidelines are posted The city is located on the rim of the spectacular Snake River Canyon, a gash in on the INPS website: www. the earth more than 500 feet deep. Historically, ancestral Native Americans used idahonativeplants.org/ this area extensively and the Wilson Butte Cave near Twin Falls contained some of news/Newsletters.aspx. the oldest artifacts recovered in North America. The earliest documented visit by Please provide a phone number European explorers was in 1811, when a boat expedition led by Wilson Hunt was and/or email address with your destroyed in the Snake River rapids just north of the city. Although located on the submission. Submission deadlines main route of the Oregon Trail, the first permanent settlement, a stage stop, was are January 8, April 1, August 1 not established until 1864. Further settlement and economic growth resulted from and November 1. the construction of a canal system constructed for the purpose of developing an agricultural industry, still the backbone of the regional economy. Advertising: Advertisements help reach Travel to Twin Falls environmentally-minded, native- Twin Falls is located along US Interstate 84 and can be approached from either the plant-loving customers and help east or west. It is possible, but less convenient to reach the city by airline. Commuter support INPS. Prices: 1/8 page Cindy Snyder, sage-editor@ airlines serve the Magic Valley Municipal Airport in Twin Falls. It is also feasible to fly = $5, 1/4 page = $8, 1/2 page = into Boise, rent a vehicle, and drive the 120 miles east to the meeting site. idahonativeplants.org$15. Submit ads electronically to the editor (JPG, TIFF, PSD or PDF files). Lodging Arrangements have been made to serve a range of lodging preferences. Due to the partial federal Send government payment to: Motels: Sage Notes Ads Please make your own reservations. Below is a list of motels located near the shutdown in September, PO Box 9451 College of Southern Idaho, the base site for the meeting. Represented are a range of the Rare Plants quality and price. Feel free to visit the Twin Falls Chamber of Commerce website to Conference Boise, ID 83707 was view additional lodging options (http://members.twinfallschamber.com/list/category/ postponed to early hotels-motels-205). 2014.Sage Watch Notes for Editor: more Shilo Inn, 1586 Blue Lakes Blvd N, Twin Falls, ID 83301; ph. 208-733-7545. information. Super 8, 1280 Blue Lakes Blvd N, Twin Falls, ID 83301; ph. 208-734-5801. Cindy Snyder, sage-editor@ LaQuinta Inn, 539 Pole Line Rd, Twin Falls, ID 83301; ph. 208-736-9600. idahonativeplants.org Continued on pg. 5 3 Sage Notes is a publication of the Idaho Native Plant Society Vol. 36 (1) March 2014

REGISTRATION FORM 2014 ERIOGONUM SOCIETY/INPS ANNUAL MEETING

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City ______State ______Zip Email______Phone______Emergency Contact Name (Phone) ______Variegated Skimmer inSpecial Reynolds Food Creek. or Health Needs ______Photo by Rich Hoyer.

Registration Fees # People $ Total Registration Fee—$95 (Includes all meeting events, Friday & Saturday evening meals) ______Total Fees ______

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Check here if you plan to participate in the Monday field trip to Craters of the Moon q

Note: You must be a member of the Eriogonum Society or the Idaho Native Plant Society to attend the joint annual meeting. If you are not a member of one of these societies and wish to attend, please fill out and submit this meeting registration form then go online to your society of choice and complete a membership application. Society web sites: ES: http://www.eriogonum.org/ ; INPS: www.idahonativeplants.org.

Patriot Garden on Mores2014 Mountain. ERIOGONUM SOCIETY/INPS ANNUAL MEETING Photo TruelTotal West. $ Remitted ______Please make checks payable to: Eriogonum Society Mail payment and registration to: Sue Braastad 1610 Blue Camas Court Idaho Falls, ID 83402 Registration and payment can also be completed online. Go online to the Eriogonum Society website (http://www.eriogonum.org/), click on the annual meetings tab and follow registration instructions.

4 Sage Notes is a publication of the Idaho Native Plant Society Vol. 36 (1) March 2014 INPS/ES Annual Meeting Information Continued from pg. 3 other meals are on your own. Pack Banquet/Keynote Speech Best Western, 1377 Blue Lakes Blvd your own lunch and carry it with you Saturday (June 21) evening is N, Twin Falls, ID 83301; ph. 208-736- on the Saturday, Sunday and Monday reserved for the annual banquet and 8000. field trips. Most field trips involve business meeting, to be held at the Motel 6, 1472 Blue Lakes Blvd N, travel into very isolated areas and it is Canyon Crest Conference Center. Twin Falls, ID; ph. 208-734-3993. essential that you carry enough food (See your registration packet for a map Red Lion, 1357 Blue Lakes Blvd N, and water for an all-day excursion. and driving directions.) A social half- Twin Falls, ID; ph. 208-734-5000. hour will start at 5:30 pm with the meal Campgrounds (for those with a Instructional Classes served at 6 pm. Following the meal, we preference for roughing it): On Friday, June 20, afternoon, will conduct short business meetings A block of 25 camp sites is being beginning at 1 pm, meeting for both organizations and then be held at Anderson Camp, approximately participants will be provided with treated to a presentation by a local 10 miles east of Twin Falls. Please call instructional classes related to plant expert. and confirm reservations for your own identification and culture of Eriogonum campsite. Be sure to mention that you (wild buckwheats). Classes will be Sunday Social are with the INPS/Eriogonum Society held in rooms 117 & 118 in the Shields Beginning at 6 pm, a no-meal, to get the group rate. The campsites Building on the College of Southern informal social will be held at Dierkes will be held until 6 Jun 2014, at which Idaho campus, 315 Falls Ave (see Lake near Shoshone Falls on Sunday time they will be released to the public. map). The classes will last two hours evening, June 22. Bring your own Contact information: 1188 E 990 S and be taught concurrently, allowing picnic and spend time visiting with (off I-84), Eden, ID 83325; ph. 208- participants to attend both. Classes friends and colleagues. (See your 825-9800. offered include: registration packet for a map and See the Anderson Camp website Keying and identifying Eriogonum driving directions.) (http://andersoncamp.com/) for maps species – James Reveal: Training and directions. on buckwheat identification. All Field Trips Campsite rates: $25 (RV site), $18 participants will be given a key Two field trips are part of the regular (tent site). of Eriogonum species of Idaho, meeting agenda on Saturday (June 21) This is a private campground with authored and printed specifically for and Sunday (June 22). You can also many amenities, including food, this meeting. Bring your hand lens, a choose to attend the post-meeting, internet, laundry, swimming pool, mini- pencil, and a note pad. all-day post-meeting tour of Craters of golf and a water slide. The art of growing buckwheats the Moon and Fish Creek Canyon on Other campgrounds are listed on – Stephen Love: Instruction on Monday. Parking for the field trips will the Twin Falls Chamber of Commerce harvesting and cleaning buckwheat be on the CSI campus near the Herrett website, at: (http://members. seed, germinating seedlings, and Center (see map on page 7). twinfallschamber.com/list/category/ successfully establishing Eriogonum campgrounds-rv-parks-138). species in the garden. Bennett Hills/Gooding City of Rocks Registration Welcome Reception/On-going Tour Leader: Carol Blackburn, Registration will take place on Friday, Registration consulting botanist and horticulturist June 20 from 12:00 noon to 1:00 pm at On Friday, June 20, evening, for the Sawtooth Botanical Garden. room 117 in the Shield building on CSI beginning at 5:30 pm with dinner at Timetable: 7:30 am to 4:30 pm. Campus (see map) and will continue 6:30 pm, an opening reception will be Vehicle Requirements: High throughout the reception at Orton hosted by LaMar Orton at his private clearance recommended. Botanical Garden (aka. Plantasia 5-acre cactus and native plant garden, Roundtrip Drive: approximately 110 Cactus Gardens) that evening. known as Orton Botanical Garden, miles. Registration fees for the meeting total aka. Plantasia Cactus Gardens. The This field trip involves a 40-mile drive $95 and include all classes, field trips, garden is located at 867 Filer Avenue on paved roads to the Bennett Hills and the Friday and Saturday evening W in Twin Falls. Food and beverages north-northwest of Twin Falls, then a meals. will be provided. There will be plenty 15-mile drive on a maintained gravel of time to tour the gardens. Alcoholic road to the Gooding City of Rocks. Meals beverages will not be served at Following an extended stop to explore Meals associated with the Friday the reception, but participates are the botanical and geological features (June 20) evening reception and the welcome to bring the beverage of their of this fascinating area, the tour will Saturday (June 21) evening banquet, choice. travel westward for additional stops in are included in the registration fee. All Continued on pg. 6 5 Sage Notes is a publication of the Idaho Native Plant Society Vol. 36 (1) March 2014 INPS/ES Annual Meeting Information Continued from pg. 5 Roundtrip Drive: approximately 240 and culture; Shields Building, CSI, the Bennett Hills before returning to miles. rooms 117 and 118. Twin Falls. Exploration of the Gooding This is a moderately long field trip 3 to 5 pm – Repeat of educational City of Rocks requires non-strenuous that will take a full day. However, it classes, Shields Building, CSI, rooms walking and hiking. will be more than worthwhile if you 117 and 118. The Bennett Hills are a chain of have never had opportunity to see the 5:30 pm. Welcome reception and low hills that divide the Snake River unique geography and ecology of the dinner at Plantasia Cactus Gardens, Plain from the Camas Prairie and recent lava flows of the Craters of the 867 Filer Avenue W. Registration to the adjacent Sawtooth Mountains. Moon. continue. Positioned at the intersection of two The route of the field trip will go very different habitats, the Bennett from Twin Falls, north and east on Saturday, June 21 Hills are home to a unique array of US Highway 93 for approximately 120 Field trips depart from a parking lot plants. Among other species, we will miles to Craters of the Moon National located at the NE corner of the CSI have opportunity to see Eriogonum Monument. We will take several hours campus near the Herrett Center (see thymoides and the unusual form to tour the monument and explore the map on page 7). of Eriogonum heracleoides var. unique botany of the cinder gardens 7:30 am – Depart on the tour to leucophaeum. and kipukas. We will have lunch at the Bennett Hills/Gooding City of Rocks monument. 8 am – Depart on the tour to the South Hills On the return trip, we will take a South Hills Tour Leader: Dennis Pettygrove, detour into Fish Creek Canyon to view 5:30 pm – Social gathering at amateur botanist with a lifetime of some unusual Eriogonum species (we Canyon Crest Conference Center (see experience in the South Hills. may need James Reveal along to help registration packet for map) Timetable: 8 am to 4:30 pm. us positively identify them) that inhabit 6 pm – Banquet, annual business Vehicle Requirements: High the southern slopes of Idaho’s central meetings at Canyon Crest Conference clearance recommended. mountains. Center Roundtrip Drive: approximately 75 miles. Field Trip Preparation Sunday, June 22 This field trip will travel about 30 Most of the field trips take us into Field trips depart from a parking lot miles into the hills south of Twin Falls places with limited access to food, located at the NE corner of the CSI on Rock Creek Road, turn west on water, or other essential equipment. If campus near the Herrett Center (see Cherry Springs Road which joins you are driving, be sure to start each map above). Indian Springs Road, then back east field trip with a full tank of gas. Make 7:30 am – Depart on the tour to on Magic Mountain Road which will sure you have a good spare tire. All Bennett Hills/Gooding City of Rocks return us to Rock Creek Road and field trip participants should plan to 8 am – Depart on the tour to the back north to Twin Falls. bring the following: South Hills Periodic stops will be made at prime Sack lunch 7 pm – Informal, no-meal social at Eriogonum sites, at a place where we Water (at least ½ gallon per person) Dierkes Lake (see registration packet can see remarkable populations of Jacket for directions) Pediocactus simpsonii, and at locales Wide-brimmed hat for seeing other plants of interest. A Insect repellant Monday, June 23 stop is scheduled at Ross Falls, a Good hiking shoes Field trip departs from a parking lot grotto habitat with many water-loving And remember your camera! located at the NE corner of the CSI plants that has been carved out by a campus near the Herrett Center (see small water fall. As a bonus, we will Annual Meeting Schedule map above). stop at a hummingbird feeding station. Friday, June 20 7 am – Depart for the post-meeting 10 am – Board Meeting, Eriogonum tour to Craters of the Moon/Fish Creek Monday (Jun 23) Post-Meeting Society – Shield Building, CSI, room Canyon. Scheduled return time 5 pm Tour — Craters of the Moon/Fish TBD Creek Canyon 10 am – Board Meeting, Idaho Registration Tour Leaders: Monument Botanists Native Plant Society – Shield Building, To register for the meeting, fill and LaMar Orton, President of the CSI, room TBD out and return the enclosed printed Idaho Native Plant Society. 12 noon to 1 pm – Registration, registration form, include a check Timetable: 7 am to 6 pm. Shield Building, CSI, room 117 or money order and mail to the Vehicle Requirements: High 1:00 to 3:00 - pm - Educational address on the form OR log onto the clearance recommended (Fish Creek) classes on Eriogonum identification Continued on pg. 7 6 Sage Notes is a publication of the Idaho Native Plant Society Vol. 36 (1) March 2014 INPS/ES Annual Meeting Information Continued from pg. 6 Eriogonum Society website (http://www.eriogonum. org/) click on the Annual Meetings tab, and follow the instructions to register and pay using a credit/debit card. Note: You must be a member of the Idaho Native Plant Society or the Eriogonum Society to attend the joint annual meeting. If you not a member of one of the societies and wish to attend, please fill out and submit the registration form, then go online to your society of choice and complete a membership application. Web site addresses: INPS: www.idahonativeplants.org; ES: http://www.eriogonum. org/.

Air Magic Valley 2014 is happening the same weekend as the INPS/ES Annual Meeting. You may want to make your lodging reservations soon.

Perrine Bridge.

Bennett Hills/Gooding City of Rocks.

Scenes you’ll see at the INPS/ES Annual Meeting, June 20-22, 2014 in Twin Falls. LaMar Orton at Plantasia Cactus Gardens. Eriogonum in the South Hills. See you there. 7 Sage Notes is a publication of the Idaho Native Plant Society Vol. 36 (1) March 2014 2013 Photo Contest Winners Plant-Pollinator Interaction

First Place Cephalanthera austiniae Photo by James P. Riser II Pullman, WA (White Pine)

Second Place Chaenactis douglasii Photo by Stephen Love Aberdeen, ID (Sawabi)

Third Place Penstemon and Swallowtail Photo by Thad Davis Kendrick, ID (White Pine)

8 Sage Notes is a publication of the Idaho Native Plant Society Vol. 36 (1) March 2014 2013 Photo Contest Winners Multiple Species — Habitat

First Place Penstemon deustus Photo by Derek Duval Boise, ID (Pahove)

Second Place Xerophyllum tenax Photo by James P. Riser II Pullman, WA (White Pine)

Third Place Castilleja covilleana Photo by Stephen Love Aberdeen, ID (Sawabi) 9 Sage Notes is a publication of the Idaho Native Plant Society Vol. 36 (1) March 2014 First Place Lewisia rediviva Photo by Sue Braastad Idaho Falls, ID (Upper Snake)

2013 Photo Contest Winners Individual Species

Second Place Mimulus lewisii Photo by S & S Wildflowers Mackay, ID (Sawabi)

Third Place Townsendia montana Photo by Michael Hays Grangeville, ID (White Pine) 10 Sage Notes is a publication of the Idaho Native Plant Society Vol. 36 (1) March 2014 Donate now to ERIG by Janet Bala We would like to thank ERIG Chair the following people and ERIG (Education, Research organizations for their generous What can ERIG do? and Inventory Grant) donations donations to the ERIG fund may now be made from the during 2013: INPS, through the ERIG News page (http://www. Sheldon Bluestein Education, Research and idahonativeplants.org/erig/Erig. Ann Finley Inventory Grant (ERIG) aspx) using PayPal or your credit Noel & Patricia Holmgren Program awards grants card. PayPal will process a Wendy McClure of up to $1,000 to support credit card payment or electronic Nancy & Reid Miller projects that contribute check. Mel & Barbara Nicholls to the appreciation, You may include a message to Molly O’Reilly conservation, or INPS with your PayPal payment LaMar Orton knowledge of Idaho’s in the event you wish to make Susan Rounds native flora or vegetation. a donation in memory of an Helen Stroebel individual. All donations are Idaho Conservation League tax-deductible and allow INPS Tetra Tech The purpose of the ERIG to award more or larger grants White Pine Chapter program is to stimulate in support of conservation, and lend support to research and education. educational, research and conservation activities that promote an appreciation for native plants and plant communities in Idaho.

Membership in INPS is “Study encouraged, but is not a requirement for receiving nature, love an ERIG. nature, stay close to Project proposals must nature. It pertain to native plants of will never Idaho. Proposals for 2014 fail you.” were due March 31.

Frank Lloyd Wright

11 Sage Notes is a publication of the Idaho Native Plant Society Vol. 36 (1) March 2014 INPS CHAPTERS CALYPSO CHAPTER INPS Chapter News 821 W. Mustang Ave. CALYPSO CHAPTER Contact: For more information about Hayden, ID 83835 When: Meetings are the first Pahove Chapter activities visit the President: Derek Antonelli Wednesdays of March, April, May and website: www.idahonativeplants.org Vice President: Vacant October at 7 pm. We do not meet from or email Karie Pappani at pahove. Secretary: Karen Williams November through February. Field [email protected]. trips are scheduled during the spring, Treasurer: Janet Benoit summer and early fall months. Our 2014 presentations started with Newsletter: Vacant a journey afar to explore foreign plant Where: Conference room of Idaho kingdoms. From there we traveled Department Fish and Game, 2885 around the globe to catch a glimpse LOASA CHAPTER W. Kathleen Ave., Coeur d’Alene, ID of some of the most striking plants 340 E 520 N 83815 on earth. Our last presentation of Shoshone, ID 83352 Contact: Derek Antonelli, antonelli8 @ this season was by Chris Colson discussing how flood irrigated wet President: Kelvin Jones frontier.com meadows on private lands create Vice President: Valdon Hancock critical habitat for migrating waterbirds Secretary/Treasurer: Lois Rohay UPCOMING EVENTS: and provide other important ecosystem We have a joint hike with the Coeur services. We thank our members for attending presentations and we thank PAHOVE CHAPTER d’Alene Audubon Society scheduled for May 17 to the Trout Creek all of our presenters this past season. PO Box 9451 Segment of the Pend Oreille Wildlife Even though our presentations are Boise, ID 83707 Management Area. over for this season, there are still [email protected] Topics for our chapter meetings and wildflower walks planned in the Boise President: Karie Pappani additional field trips for next year have area for May. Vice President: Elaine Walker not been determined yet. If you would like to receive updates on Calypso Secretary: Daniel Murphy Chapter events, send your email UPCOMING EVENTS: Treasurer: Caroline Morris address to Derek Antonelli, the chapter April 25 and 26, 2014- “Go Native” Venue Coordinator: Susan Ziebarth president, at [email protected]. Spring Plant Sale Snacks & Refreshments: Go Native! with the Pahove Chapter at Conservation: Karie Pappani the 2014 Native Plant Sale. This event LOASA CHAPTER celebrates Earth Day, is a fundraiser Members-at-Large: Cyndi Coulter, All INPS members and the public are for our chapter, and helps to promote Karen Colson and Jody Hull welcome to attend chapter events. and perpetuate the use of Idaho’s When: Meetings are held the third native plants in our own landscapes. SAWABI CHAPTER Thursday of each month We are keeping the format the same as the past few years with a “Members 5901 Country Club Drive Where: Taylor Building, Room 258, Only” sale in the evening on Friday the College of Southern Idaho, Twin Falls Pocatello, ID 83204 25th from 5-7 pm and an “Open to the President: Bob McCoy Contact: Kelvin Jones, (208) 886-7051 Public” sale on Saturday the 26th from Vice President: Dick Anderson & 10 am – 1 pm. LaRue Gregersen PAHOVE CHAPTER An availability list and more details Secretary: Barbara Nicholls When: Meetings are held on the will be posted on the INPS website by Treasurer: Grant Thomas 2nd Tuesday of each month from mid-April. The sale location is the MK Nature Center, 600 S. Walnut, Boise. Chapter News: Ardys Holte September–April at 6:30 pm. Dates and topics in Sage Notes are tentative. A big THANK YOU goes out to Susan Website: Catalina Steckbauer More current information will be sent for managing the plant sale activities Conservation/education: Janet Bala to members via postcard & email & and also to all of the folks who Members-at-large: Janet Bala, posted on the INPS website: http:// volunteered their time to help with the Pauline Havens, Ardys & Karl Holte, www.idahonativeplants.org/inps/ event. This is an important event for Linda Johnson, Mel Nicholls and chapter.aspx?ChapterId=4 our chapter that puts native plants into Shirley Rodgers Where: Meetings are usually held at local landscapes and yards. the MK Nature Center Auditorium. 12 Continued on pg. 13 Sage Notes is a publication of the Idaho Native Plant Society Vol. 36 (1) March 2014 INPS CHAPTERS INPS Chapter News UPPER SNAKE CHAPTER Continued from pg. 12 UPPER SNAKE CHAPTER President: Rose Lehman May 8 and May 15, 2014 – Wildflower When: Meetings are usually held the Vice President: Sue Braastad Walks at Idaho Botanical Garden 3rd Wednesday of the month at 7 pm. Secretary: Alan Crockett Spend an evening exploring the flora Field Trips are scheduled in the spring of the foothills above Idaho Botanical and summer. Treasurer: Dave Godfrey Garden with Ann DeBolt and other Where: Idaho Fish & Game office, Members-at-large: Mark & Donna local botanists. This event is free of Idaho Falls Whitman charge but pre-registration is required. Contact: Sue Braastad, braastads@ Visit www.idahobotanicalgarden.org yahoo.com WHITE PINE CHAPTER for more information. [email protected] RECENT EVENTS: WHITE PINE CHAPTER President: Sonja Lewis Education and Enrichment Meetings: During the spring and fall, Vice President: Judy Ferguson The Pahove Chapter established an meetings are held once a month. Field Secretary: Susan Rounds award to provide chapter member(s) trips occur most any month. Please Treasurer: Helen Stroebel with an excellent opportunity for check the chapter website for events education and enrichment in line which may be scheduled or finalized Members-at-large: Pamela Pavek, with our dedication to and promotion after this issue is printed: www. Thad Davis and Steve Flint of Idaho’s native plants and plant whitepineinps.org or email the chapter Past President: James Riser II communities. Two chapter members officers at whitepine.chapter@gmail. Landscaping & Restoration Plants: were given an award to attend the com. Juanita Lichthardt Botany 2014 Conference and the Where: 1912 Center, Great Room, Western Native Plant Conference. The Publicity Chair: Vacant 412 East Third St., Moscow, Idaho award winners will give a presentation Web: Nancy Miller (between Adams and Van Buren) to our chapter or submit an article for www.whitepineinps.org Sage Notes summarizing conference Contact: White Pine Chapter, PO Box events. 8481, Moscow, ID 83843 or whitepine. New Secretary [email protected] WOOD RIVER CHAPTER PO Box 3093 Please welcome Daniel Murphy as our new chapter secretary. Daniel UPCOMING EVENTS: Hailey, ID 83333 has been helping with snacks and Sunday, May 4: University of Idaho President: Carol Blackburn beverages and venue set-up over Systematic Botany class field trip. Vice President: Vacant the past season. Daniel is a valued White Pine members are invited to Secretary: Vacant member of our board and he also take part in this annual floristic event. works in the Lewis & Clark Native Treasurer: Vacant Plant Garden and other areas at the Leader: Pam Brunsfeld, UI Systematic Idaho Botanical Garden Botany Instructor, and former Manager and Curator, UI Stillinger Herbarium. More information will be available in Arrowleaf Balsamroot blooming along the nature trail near Justice April. http://www.whitepineinps.org/ SAWABI CHAPTER Park. Photo by Bob McCoy. Meetings: We welcome the public to Like our page to receive updates on our chapter’s informative programs. chapter events and happenings from Saturday, May 17, 2014: Field trip around the state. View our page at: When: First Monday of each month, to see several species of Moscow https://www.facebook.com/ October through March, 7 pm. Mountain orchids. IdahoNativePlants Where: Pond Student Union Building, Trip leader: James Riser II, PhD Room 308, ISU Campus, Pocatello. candidate,Washington State University Contact: 208-241-5851, email botany and environmental biology [email protected]. instructor. Orchids that may be in bloom include Calypso bulbosa, Our regular winter meetings began and species of the Corallorhiza, October 7. Platanthera and Neottia (Listera) genera. Ruth Moorhead and Marijana Dolsen in Continued on pg. 14 the Plantasia Cactus Garden. Photo by Bob McCoy. Sage Notes is a publication of the Idaho Native Plant Society Vol. 36 (1) March 2014 13 Continued from pg. 13 new plant recruitment than previously Saturday, May 24, 2014, 9 am - 12 pm, thought. The plant does not produce White Pine Chapter 3rd annual Native another seed head if the immature Plant Sale, indoors at the 1912 Center head is removed, making this an Arts Room, 412 E. 3rd St., Moscow. effective practice for preventing spread Co-ordinators: Thad Davis and Steve by seed. Mowing, herbicides, and Flint, assisted by many volunteers. shade help control vegetative growth, Setup will be the day before, details but completely eliminating this grass is to be announced at a later date. As not currently possible. before, count on a selection of many January 23, 2013 talk: “Ecosystem wonderful species! Additional vendors Kevin & Elisabeth Brackney on the Aquarius Services with Backyard Benefits: Avian and volunteers welcome! Trail with unknown Sandpoint participant. diversity, forest diversity and carbon Late June or early July, weekend trip: November 14, 2013: “Monitoring sequestration on Moscow Mountain,” Fescue grasslands in central Idaho, Spalding’s Catchfly,” presentation presented by Dr. Andrew Hudak, Mud Springs Ridge, located west co-sponsored with the Palouse Prairie USFS, Rocky Mountain Research of Lucile, between the Salmon and Foundation by Tiana Luke, Washington Station. Snake Rivers. Leader: Mike Hays, State University Research Assistant. Andy’s research is global but primarily USFS Botanist, Nez Perce-Clearwater In the channeled scablands of eastern focused on Interior Northwest forests, Forest. This is a promised continuation Washington, the Bureau of Land where he uses field and remote of last year’s trip, scheduled to catch Management has been monitoring sensing data to conduct studies in many plants in bloom, which may the Spalding’s catchfly since 1995, fire ecology, wildlife habitat mapping, include Silene spaldingii, Spalding’s but the monitoring procedure has had disturbance ecology, and forest catchfly. statistical limitations. In 2012, a new, biomass assessment to estimate more statistically valid, monitoring carbon sequestration. He explained : RECENT EVENTS method was implemented, consistent how field plot measures on the ground September 6-8, 2013: Campout with the protocol recommended by can be predicted from LiDAR and and naturalist hikes, North Fork of the US Fish and Wildlife Service for other remote sensing data collected the Clearwater River. Sponsored by the species throughout its range. It from airplanes or satellites to quantify Friends of the Clearwater, Sierra Club, was hoped that the new method would landscape-level ecological processes. and White Pine Chapter, INPS. allow more consistent comparison Focusing on the Moscow Mountain Our lead botanist was Pam Brunsfeld, between populations. Impacts of landscape, he showed how the former manager and curator of UI weather on plant characteristics were opposing trends in forest growth and Stillinger Herbarium, and Systematic determined from the original long-term harvest operations between 2003 and Botany Instructor. We began our foray data. Precipitation is an important 2009 affected carbon storage, turning into the North Fork’s “Aquarius” forests influence, but not the only one. Moscow Mountain into a net carbon of Thuja plicata and Alnus rubra, source regarding the atmosphere. January 9, 2013 talk: The biology, with Pam’s explanation of “vicariance He also showed how other valued ecology, and control of reed biogeography”: ancient events that ecosystem services, in this case tree canarygrass (Phalaris arundinacea have given areas of North Idaho our species composition and avian habitat L.), co-sponsored by Palouse Prairie “coastal disjunct” species, such as suitability, can be predicted from Foundation. Presented by Dr. Linda Oplopanax horridum (devil’s club). LiDAR measures of canopy structure Hardesty, Associate Professor, Forest Pam listed some 35 disjuncts, of which and topography. and Range Management, Washington 6 are recent declarations. Six other State University School of the Andy collaborates, both locally and species are endemic. Saturday—more Environment. globally, to develop applications useful disjuncts were seen, as we headed to forest and rangeland managers. through a magnificent mountain Dr. Hardesty has devoted many Learn more at http://www.fs.fed.us/ hemlock (Tsuga mertensiana) forest years of her career to studying this rmrs/people/profile.php?alias=ahudak. up Grassy Ridge trail towards a invasive riparian grass. Introduced... view of the Mallard-Larkins area. or native? Dr. Hardesty explained Authors: Judy Ferguson, Pamela Hydrogeologist Kevin Brackney shared that introduced European strains may Pavek and Sonja Lewis. his knowledge and enthusiasm, and have so diluted the gene pool that entomologist Tim Hatten entertained non-native and native populations us with insect lore. We finished with a are now indistinguishable. One of her WOOD RIVER CHAPTER spaghetti feed by the Sierra Club, and most surprising findings is that sexual Contact: Carol Blackburn at songs by Tom Peterson on guitar. reproduction may be more important in [email protected] for information on activities.

14 Sage Notes is a publication of the Idaho Native Plant Society Vol. 36 (1) March 2014 Rare Plant Profile Sacajawea’s bitterroot – a gem in the Gem State mountains by Michael Mancuso recognition and description of Sacajawea’s bitterroot (Lewisia Lewisia sacajaweana as a new, sacajaweana) is a small, ground- distinct species endemic to the hugging perennial herb in the central Idaho mountains. The Montia family (Montiaceae; scientific name honors and links included in Portulacaceae in earlier two important historic figures. classifications). Plants consist of The genus name Lewisia honors a rosette of glabrous succulent Meriwether Lewis, while the leaves that emerge shortly after specific epithet honors Sacajawea, snowmelt, soon followed by the the Lemhi Shoshone woman who appearance of one or a few small, assisted as a guide and interpreter but showy white flowers on a short on the famous Lewis and Clark scape lying directly atop the leaves. USDA file photo. expedition. All aboveground signs of the plant The genus Lewisia is comprised disappear soon after flowering has occasionally in areas supporting of approximately 17 species, been completed, with the top of the only a few widely scattered trees. It all endemic to parts of western usually branched taproot hidden is most common near ridgecrests North America, with one species just below the surface. This rapid and associated upper slopes extending southward into Mexico. disappearance means wildflower between approximately 6000 and Several species are widespread, enthusiasts have a relatively small 9300 feet elevation. including the most well-known window of time to see Sacajawea’s A few early collections of member of the group, common bitterroot each year. Like many Sacajawea’s bitterroot were bitterroot (Lewisia rediviva), gems, this species is hidden from made in Idaho during the 1930s a familiar wildflower in rocky view most of the year. and 1940s, but no subsequent habitats across the southern half The distribution of Sacajawea’s collections occurred until 1990. of Idaho and the state flower for bitterroot is restricted to a swath The majority of known populations Montana. However, several other across the central Idaho mountains, were discovered between 1996 Lewisia species have distribution with populations known from the and 2003, largely due to targeted ranges even more restricted than Boise, Trinity, Sawtooth, Salmon surveys by Boise National Forest Sacajawea’sSusan Lee, bitterroot, Darlene Carlton, especially in and Karen Williams enjoying River and Bighorn Crags ranges. botanists. California.the Coal Creek hike. Photo by Its entire known distribution Idaho populations were initially In additionDerek Antonelli. to Sacajawea’s encompasses an area roughly identified as Kellogg’s bitterroot bitterroot, five other Lewisia 120 miles long by 75 miles (Lewisia kelloggii) and considered species can be found in Idaho, wide, including portions of the disjunct from this species’ main including common bitterroot, Payette, Boise, Sawtooth, and range in the Sierra Nevada threeleaf lewisia (L. triphylla), Salmon-Challis National Forests. mountains of California. Questions Columbia lewisia (L. columbiana), Sacajawea’s bitterroot habitat concerning the relationship dwarf lewisia (L. pygmaea), and consists of relatively sparsely between the widely separated Nevada lewisia (L. nevadensis – vegetated montane and subalpine population centers arose as the formerly part of the L. pygmaea openings on well-drained gravelly availability of more Idaho material complex). to coarse sandy granitic soil, or less after the mid-1990s indicated some Each of these is another often on scree or rock outcrops, or potential differences compared to wildflower gem waiting for you in shallow understory duff. plants from California. to stumble upon in the Idaho Sites tend to be located along In 2005, a morphological and mountains. the margins or within gaps of the isozyme analysis study led to the Someone else interested in the surrounding subalpine forest, or Calypso Chapter Coal Creek hike. Photo by Derek Antonelli.

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