WELCOME

We invite all those interested in the native plants of Jackson Hole to enjoy our programs, information sources and good company. We are Teton Plants, which is the Teton Chapter of the Wyoming Native Plant Society. Voluntary membership dues help support our educational efforts. We welcome your participation in any way you choose.

LECTURES, WALKS, HIKES AND MORE

Teton Plants, along with JH Bird and Nature Club, co-sponsor monthly programs at the Teton County Library on the 2nd Tuesday of each month as part of Nature Night Series. Teton County Library, 125 Virginian Lane, Jackson, WY. Talks start at 6pm and are FREE. We welcome your ideas for speakers!

UPCOMING EVENTS

We encourage you to ask to be placed on our email list—email us at tetonplants@gmail.com—to receive notification of programs and other related natural history events. While we place some notices on this website, others are sent only to our email list. You want to be alerted to our “impromptu” hikes, right?

Wednesday, June 18, 9:30 a.m.- 12:00 p.m. Impromptu Hike up Wally’s World, south of Wilson. Meet: promptly 9:30 at BTNF parking lot, Fall Creek Road, approx. 8.5 miles (about a 20-minute drive) south of jct. with Rte. 22 in Wilson. (Fall Creek Road starts at the base of Teton Pass just west of the gas station). Leader: Frances Clark, Teton Plants. Wally’s World hike is a moderate approx. 1.5-mile hike up through aspen groves to a ridgeline overlooking Red Top. Along the open ridge many different flowers are in full bloom right now including paintbrushes, larkspurs, penstemons, and many, many composites all providing quite the flower show with a great view! Bring camera and binoculars, wear hiking boots, hat, etc.

Impromptu hikes! Make sure you sign up for emails to get notice of our impromptu hikes. We did one recently, featuring “dry knoll habitat” plants, on May 28th at the north end of Flat Creek Rd and the Elk Refuge Road

CLICK HERE FOR REPLAY: Tuesday, April 8, “Restoring Sagebrush Habitats: Insights in Plant Traits and Soil Microbes Vital for Success.” Presenters: Daniel Laughlin, Linda van Diepen, and Dillon Romero of University of Wyoming; Laura Jones of Grand Teton National Park. Sagebrush steppe restoration remains a significant challenge in Jackson Hole and throughout the West. At Grand Teton National Park, efforts have been underway to remove smooth brome grass and invasive species from Antelope Flats and to plant native sage, wildflowers, and grasses to create a biodiverse habitat. Our presenters from the University of Wyoming will share the latest research on the importance of soil microbiota, including fungi and bacteria, as well as the role of plant traits—such as leaf area, seed production, and root mass—in supporting the growth of native species. This cutting-edge research may hold the key to optimizing restoration efforts and advancing our understanding of how to best restore sagebrush ecosystems.”

CLICK HERE FOR REPLAY: Tuesday, March 12, “Dry Knoll Plants of Spring,” Frances Clark of Teton Plants. The first flowers to bloom in Jackson Hole are frequently found on south-facing slopes of buttes and exposed tops of dry hills. These sparse habitats feature relatively little snow and poor soils, yet a diversity of low-growing wildflowers from different plant families know how to survive. Take a virtual hike with Frances Clark to spy these early, sturdy, colorful species and discover their key ID features, survival methods–toxins, and associates –fungi, pollinators, and more.  Viewers can just enjoy the colorful array of flowers or geek out on details.  In any case, this flower show will cheer one on through March. Frances Clark is the Program Coordinator for Teton Plants. She has been rambling Jackson Hole for flowers since 2011. 

And in the meanwhile, enjoy our past “What’s in Bloom” postings (listed in the side bar on this page) to see what to look for this coming growing season!

MEMBERSHIP

If you’d like to join our group, our annual dues are $5/year (that’s not a typo, dues are just $5). Please click on this link to go to the membership page of our parent group, the Wyoming Native Plant Society. That page has a drop down menu of choices and a PayPal button to join. Our group is called Teton Plants. Thanks! (When meetings start again, we’ll also take cash and checks.)

CHAT

To chat with others in the group, post a comment below (the most recent comment is on top and see “Stay In Touch” below to learn how to subscribe to comments). For example:

• Log a special plant siting (please, for their protection, do not give locations of rare plants), OR
• See if others want to meetup for an impromptu plant hike, OR
• Suggest an activity for our program

To help identify a plant, send the image(s) in an email to – tetonplants@gmail.com – and try to keep the file under 1 MB. We will show the image in a blog post with the name and, perhaps, other information. In the comment section for that blog post, anyone can weigh in on the answer. You can find all plant ID posts by clicking here or on the Plant ID category in the sidebar.

STAY IN TOUCH

There are three ways you can stay on top of all of our activities:

First, email us to join our email list by clicking here – OR tetonplants [at] gmail [dot] com. Get notices and reminders of events (this is different than subscribing to new blog posts).

Second, join the comments on this page, our homepage, at the bottom. You have to make a comment to join, so go ahead and make a comment like, “subscribe me to comments.” ALSO, check the box, “Notify me of follow-up comments via email.” We’ll delete the comment but you’ll still be subscribed. NOTE: the name you enter to sign up will be emailed to everyone who has subscribed to comments.

Third, to receive new blog posts by email, enter your email in the sidebar at the upper right and click the Follow button.