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Florida Native Plant Society @fnps.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

🚨 URGENT: The USDA wants to rescind the Roadless Rule, threatening 50k acres in FL's Apalachicola, Ocala & Osceola forests—home to 136 threatened/endangered plant species like rare carnivorous plants! Submit your comment at Regulations.gov (Docket: RIN 0596–AD66) by Oct 6! 🌲👇

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Florida Native Plant Society @fnps.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

We're saddened to hear of the passing of Dr. Richard Wunderlin, a giant in the world southeastern plant taxonomy. A charter member of our Suncoast Chapter, Dr. Wunderlin was a prolific taxonomist, establishing the Atlas of Florida Vascular Plants which is used by both lumpers and splitters alike.

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Florida Native Plant Society @fnps.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Amendment 3 would limit the ability of local governments in Florida to manage growth & protect natural resources. Its passage would further erode home rule authority of city & county governments. FNPS urges all Florida voters to vote no on Amendment 3 in November. irp.cdn-website.com/ea562199/fil...

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Florida Native Plant Society @fnps.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

The 2026 Florida Native Plant Society Photo Contest is NOW OPEN! Share your photos to celebrate Florida’s incredible native flora and all the ways they shape our wild and cultivated spaces. Visit www.fnps.org/photocontest for more details. 📸: Brian Kamprath, 2025 Photo Contest Winner

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Florida Native Plant Society @fnps.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

How are the pollinators in your area doing? The Great Southeastern Pollinator Census has been collecting data since 2017 and with just 15 minutes you can contribute to this critical dataset! Register -> fnps.app.neoncrm.com/nx/portal/ne...

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Florida Native Plant Society @fnps.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

This Earth Day, we celebrate the native plants that have shaped Florida's ecosystems for thousands of years. From longleaf pine forests to coastal scrub, these plants are the foundation of everything wild and wonderful in our state. Happy Earth Day from the Florida Native Plant Society.

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Florida Native Plant Society @fnps.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

Celebrate National Native Plant Month with the latest issue of The Palmetto! This issue has something for everyone - André Michaux's orchid discoveries, 2025 FNPS Landscape Award winners, and more! Browse this issue and the full archive at issuu.com/fnps.

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Florida Native Plant Society @fnps.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

🌿 April is National Native Plant Month & we're celebrating all month long! 🌳 More than 17K native plant species grow in the US. ‼️ Habitat loss, invasive species, & extreme weather events are driving species decline. 🌸 But we can help reverse it. Join us and help protect FL native plants!

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Florida Native Plant Society @fnps.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

Tonight the Volusia County Council will consider harmful changes to the Volusia Forever program - we support maintaining the program's integrity. Read the letter in full here: irp.cdn-website.com/ea562199/fil...

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Florida Native Plant Society @fnps.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

Your calls and emails to your Senators and members of the Senate Rules Committee worked! Blue Ribbon Projects was TP’d today by Senate President Ben Albritton on the floor. We still need a final push to kill this bill -

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Florida Native Plant Society @fnps.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

Please contact Senator Albritton today to encourage him to allow a vote on Ocklawaha Restoration (SB 1066) . He has two phone numbers - please try both: (850) 487-5027 or (850) 487-5229 and a quick email would also be effective - albritton.ben@flsenate.gov.

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Florida Native Plant Society @fnps.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

Congratulations to Dr. Weston Testo on receiving the Dr. Barbara Grigg Grant! His research will investigate the evolutionary origins and conservation status of Asplenium plenum, a rare fern found only in Florida's limestone grottoes. 🎉 #FloridaNativePlants #Botany #ConservationScience

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Florida Native Plant Society @fnps.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

Do you know someone who deserves recognition for their work for Florida's native plants? Nominations are open for FNPS service awards, due May 15, 2026. Let's make sure the people and chapters doing incredible work for Florida's native plants get the recognition they deserve! buff.ly/S1PPpB1

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Florida Native Plant Society @fnps.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

Please call and email the Chair and Vice Chair of the Senate Rules Committee - phone numbers and emails are at our full action alert: www.fnps.org/ecoaction-al...

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Florida Native Plant Society @fnps.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

🔥 It's really happening, we're finally getting to hear about fire in the rocklands with Owen Schneider of Temple U. Join us this Friday at noon EST for a deep dive into plant flammability, fire behavior, and environmental conditions on Long Pine Key in Everglades National Park.

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Florida Native Plant Society @fnps.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

🚨 FNPS opposes Section 6 of CS/HB 433, which allows Florida Forever conservation lands to be sold for agriculture without confirming their lack of conservation value. An RFLPP easement on these lands is insufficient compared to permanent protection. It passed the senate - the House is our last hope.

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Craig Pittman @craigtimes.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

For the first time since the "super" ghost orchid was discovered at Audubon #Florida's Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary nearly 20 years ago, the plant failed to flower at all. www.wusf.org/environment/... via @wusf.org

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Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary's prolific 'super' ghost orchid fails to bloom for once

Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary's "super" ghost orchid has not only bloomed every year except last since it was discovered, it's bloomed multiple times some years. And over the years, it bloomed during all ...

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Florida Native Plant Society @fnps.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

Happy Valentine's Day to everyone who loves and cares about Florida's native plants. We love and appreciate you so we made you a few Valentine's Day cards to send to your loved ones.

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Florida Native Plant Society @fnps.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

💚 Peggy Lantz has left us all one final valentine. 💚 She thanked you, the membership, for “the fine organization you have made of FNPS” and encouraged us to “Keep going!” What a beautiful reminder that FNPS has been built by its members. Today, we honor her love for FNPS and we will keep going.

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Florida Native Plant Society @fnps.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

📢 A new toll road through Hardee County and the heart of the Florida Wildlife Corridor in south central Florida is being proposed that would harm rare plants and their natural communities as well well-established collaborative conservation planning efforts.

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Florida Native Plant Society @fnps.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

Today we sent an email urging Martin County's State Representative John Snyder to support full funding of Florida Forever. We encourage all Floridians, but particularly Martin County residents, to call and email Rep. Snyder to express their support for Florida Forever funding.

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Florida Native Plant Society @fnps.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

Miss our livestream last week? No worries, it's available now on our YouTube Channel 📺 Johanna Freeman discussed her research on keystone pollinator plants of sandhills and how this might inform priorities for producers trying to bring new groundcover restoration species into commercial production

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L&L: Groundcover Restoration Research @ FWC FWRI with Dr. Johanna Freeman

YouTube video by Florida Native Plant Society

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Florida Native Plant Society @fnps.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

There are three sprawl-enabling bills making their way through the legislature right now that your representatives need to hear from you about:

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Florida Native Plant Society @fnps.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

Join us this Friday for a compelling presentation on pollinator conservation by Johanna Freeman, PhD of the FWC Fish and Wildlife Research Institute. Register here: buff.ly/WVDS7Sg

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Florida Native Plant Society @fnps.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

📣 OCKLAWAHA RIVER RESTORATION BILLS FILED - SB 1066 (Senator Brodeur) / HB 981 (Rep. Duggan): Tributaries of St. Johns River These companion bills are a good approach to restoration, focusing on conservation while providing for recreation & community development. SB 1066 and HB 981 focus on:

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Florida Native Plant Society @fnps.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

We’re thrilled to announce Cherice’s promotion to Director of Operations. 💚 Thank you, Cherice, for your leadership, care, and countless hours of behind-the-scenes work that help FNPS run stronger every day. 🌿

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Florida Native Plant Society @fnps.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

Thank you to the Native Plant Horticulture Foundation for their support and dedication to growing the future of native plant horticulture. Learn more at www.nativeplanthort.org🌱

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Florida Native Plant Society @fnps.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

Looking for a meaningful holiday gift for the teachers in your life? Buy a League of Environmental Educators of Florida (LEEF) membership with a school email and get a Florida Native Plant Society membership FREE! Visit www.leef-florida.org or email leef.florida@gmail.com for more info.

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Florida Native Plant Society @fnps.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

Join us for our Lunch and Learn today at noon with Alexa Heilman - youtube.com/live/CS2IEyG...

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Florida Native Plant Society @fnps.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

THANK YOU! We're thrilled to share that together we raised over $8,000 on Giving Tuesday in support of rare plant conservation! Thank you for supporting our mission of championing native plants and their habitats. Learn more about what we do at www.fnps.org/what-we-do.

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Florida Native Plant Society @fnps.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

Our Lunch and Learn this month on Friday 12/12 at noon will be a review of the history, practice and applications of Horticultural Therapy and guidance for how native plants can be used in an Horticultural Therapy practice from a practical, metaphorical and therapeutic/clinical perspective.

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Florida Native Plant Society @fnps.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

📭 The latest Palmetto is hitting inboxes and mailboxes as we speak! In this issue: 🐛 Beyond Milkweed: Host Plants for the Other Butterflies by Leslie Nixon 🏆 Celebrating the 2025 FNPS Landscape Awards by Natalia Manrique 🍃 Carex of Central Florida by Linda W. Curtis

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Florida Native Plant Society @fnps.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

Thank you for supporting our work to protect our native plants and habitats. With your support and responsiveness to action alerts we have: 💮 successfully advocated for routing a toll road around the habitat of the endangered Blushing Scrub Balm (Dicerandra modesta),

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Florida Native Plant Society @fnps.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

You may have heard of Giving Tuesday, but do you know about Giving Twosday? Chip in $2 to support two of our conservation projects: TorreyaKeepers 🌿 and Two Endangered Mints in the Genus Dicerandra 💮. Both of these projects were federally funded and were cut this year.

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Florida Native Plant Society @fnps.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

Announcing the Peggy Lantz Writing Contest! We’re excited to launch our writing contest celebrating creative voices inspired by Florida’s wild flora, in honor of Peggy Lantz, an esteemed nature writer and tireless advocate for Florida’s native plants. Learn more at fnps.org/writingcontest.

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Florida Native Plant Society @fnps.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

Our presenter for tomorrow, Owen Schneider, had a family emergency so he's flying back home to be with his parents tomorrow and won't be presenting. We're working on rescheduling Owen so keep an eye out for that.

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Florida Native Plant Society @fnps.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

This month's Lunch and Learn is with Temple University ecologist Owen Schneider is going to be lit! 🔥 He will be presenting his research on plant flammability in Long Pine Key in Everglades National Park. 🕛 Friday, 11/21, 12pm EST ✏️ Registration: buff.ly/apdmsL5

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Florida Native Plant Society @fnps.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

There are still tickets available to the state's longest running native plant landscape tour on Sunday! Our Conradina Chapter has arranged for a 20% discount to a local nursery on Sunday, plein air painters at some of the stops, & a free native plant to all attendees. brevardlandscapetour.org

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Florida Native Plant Society @fnps.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

Join the @flspringscouncil.bsky.social for a deep dive into Florida's Legislative Session and lobbying for springs 🏛️ PART 5 OF THE SPRINGS ADVOCACY 101 SERIES 💦 🗓️ Wednesday, November 19 at 6:30 p.m. buff.ly/Bx7C590

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Florida Native Plant Society @fnps.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

🔥 Experience a prescribed burn and explore the role of fire in Florida’s ecosystems this Saturday at the Lake Wales Ridge Fire Fest, a day of learning, demonstrations, and community engagement. The festival is free with the $6 entrance fee to Highlands Hammock SP. visitsebring.com/event/fire-f...

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Florida Native Plant Society @fnps.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

Huge thanks to the @flspringscouncil.bsky.social for hosting our President, Eugene Kelly, for a deep dive on conservation land protection last night. Ryan Smart, Gene, and Ryan Worthington's excellent discussion is on YouTube and runs 1h16. Watch it here: buff.ly/hPfjhd2

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Florida Native Plant Society @fnps.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

🌀 We're very excited to have Nicole Zampieri as our L&L presenter this week. She is an incoming professor in the Department of Biology at UCF & will discuss her research into the hurricane ecology of longleaf pine savannas. Registration: buff.ly/w7PRd3q

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Florida Museum of Natural History @floridamuseum.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

Online Exhibit 🌿 Rare, Beautiful & Fascinating Feature: Florida Yew (Taxus floridana) This critically endangered native Florida plant produces Taxol, an anticancer drug. Florida yew is not harvested commercially due to its rarity. 🎧 With Kent Perkins: www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/100-years/ob...

close up of a pressed preserved plant that has numerous elongated evergreen leaves running up and down along each side of many entwined stems and tiny flower pods clustered at the bas along some sections of leaves

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Florida Native Plant Society @fnps.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

We're looking forward to Giving Tuesday, which is the Tuesday after Thanksgiving every year. We have just come off of a relatively successful year in conservation advocacy, having taken the lead on stopping the Withlacoochee State Forest land swap

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Florida Native Plant Society @fnps.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

🦋 Research just out from UF IFAS shows that while many Floridians are aware of the potential benefits of supporting native plants as pollinator habitat on roadsides, a large subset of the population isn't even thinking about how roadsides could support pollinators.

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Florida Native Plant Society @fnps.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

FNPS is proud to be sponsoring this year's Groundcover Restoration and Enhancement Workshop. The past two workshops have been incredibly informative with excellent networking among native plant folks & this year's workshop should be similarly excellent. Register here: web.cvent.com/event/5a792b...

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Florida Native Plant Society @fnps.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

Today as part of our conference sponsor appreciation series, we’re highlighting Young Bear Environmental Consulting, an environmentally conscious firm dedicated to protecting Florida’s natural resources. Learn more about their impactful work at ybeconsulting.com. 🌿💧

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Florida Native Plant Society @fnps.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

Last Tuesday (9/30) the Florida Governor and Cabinet voted to spend $83m of money earmarked for protecting land for conservation to buy four acres in Destin completely outside of any existing conservation land purchasing project area.

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