Florida Native Plant Society
@fnps.bsky.social
The Florida Native Plant Society’s mission is to champion Florida’s native plants and their habitats. Visit fnps.org to learn more!
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
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
November 5, 2025 at 7:36 PM
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
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
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
🗓️ Wednesday, November 19 at 6:30 p.m. buff.ly/Bx7C590
November 4, 2025 at 12:51 PM
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
🗓️ Wednesday, November 19 at 6:30 p.m. buff.ly/Bx7C590
🔥 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...
October 30, 2025 at 9:12 PM
🔥 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...
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
Watch it here: buff.ly/hPfjhd2
October 30, 2025 at 8:51 PM
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
Watch it here: buff.ly/hPfjhd2
🌀 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
Registration: buff.ly/w7PRd3q
October 27, 2025 at 8:15 PM
🌀 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
Registration: buff.ly/w7PRd3q
Reposted by Florida Native Plant Society
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...
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...
October 27, 2025 at 8:11 PM
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...
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...
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
October 21, 2025 at 7:28 PM
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
🦋 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.
October 20, 2025 at 3:08 PM
🦋 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.
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...
October 16, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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...
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. 🌿💧
Learn more about their impactful work at ybeconsulting.com. 🌿💧
October 15, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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. 🌿💧
Learn more about their impactful work at ybeconsulting.com. 🌿💧
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.
October 6, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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.
Tell Governor DeSantis & CFO Blaise Ingoglia to vote NO tomorrow on the purchase of the Pointe Mezzanine property!
Governor DeSantis (850)717-9337 GovernorRon.Desantis@eog.myflorida.com
CFO Blaise Ingoglia (850)413-3100 Blaise.Ingoglia@myfloridacfo.com
More info: buff.ly/ITgSyUR
Governor DeSantis (850)717-9337 GovernorRon.Desantis@eog.myflorida.com
CFO Blaise Ingoglia (850)413-3100 Blaise.Ingoglia@myfloridacfo.com
More info: buff.ly/ITgSyUR
September 29, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Tell Governor DeSantis & CFO Blaise Ingoglia to vote NO tomorrow on the purchase of the Pointe Mezzanine property!
Governor DeSantis (850)717-9337 GovernorRon.Desantis@eog.myflorida.com
CFO Blaise Ingoglia (850)413-3100 Blaise.Ingoglia@myfloridacfo.com
More info: buff.ly/ITgSyUR
Governor DeSantis (850)717-9337 GovernorRon.Desantis@eog.myflorida.com
CFO Blaise Ingoglia (850)413-3100 Blaise.Ingoglia@myfloridacfo.com
More info: buff.ly/ITgSyUR
We are a proud member of the Reunite the Rivers Coalition. After >50 years, it’s time to breach the obsolete dam & allow the Ocklawaha River to be free-flowing & connected to Silver Springs & the St. Johns again. Pledge to support Ocklawaha restoration. IT'S ABOUT DAM TIME! buff.ly/gmQyXdc
September 29, 2025 at 1:29 PM
We are a proud member of the Reunite the Rivers Coalition. After >50 years, it’s time to breach the obsolete dam & allow the Ocklawaha River to be free-flowing & connected to Silver Springs & the St. Johns again. Pledge to support Ocklawaha restoration. IT'S ABOUT DAM TIME! buff.ly/gmQyXdc
Don't miss this week's Lunch and Learn with Susan Carr, land conservationist extraordinaire! Susan will be presenting on the recent history of conservation land in Florida, focusing on local, state, federal, and private funding mechanisms.
Register here: buff.ly/hPL9aWG
Register here: buff.ly/hPL9aWG
September 24, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Don't miss this week's Lunch and Learn with Susan Carr, land conservationist extraordinaire! Susan will be presenting on the recent history of conservation land in Florida, focusing on local, state, federal, and private funding mechanisms.
Register here: buff.ly/hPL9aWG
Register here: buff.ly/hPL9aWG
Shoutout to our Pawpaw Chapter, serving Volusia & Flagler for 35 years! From monthly programs & field trips to public gardens & their annual Native Plant Sale & Expo, they’re making a huge impact—and helped make our 2025 FNPS Conference a success.
September 22, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Shoutout to our Pawpaw Chapter, serving Volusia & Flagler for 35 years! From monthly programs & field trips to public gardens & their annual Native Plant Sale & Expo, they’re making a huge impact—and helped make our 2025 FNPS Conference a success.
September 15, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Whether you’re photographing plants or the plant people who love them, make sure to get outside this weekend - the FNPS Photo Contest ends on Monday!
Find more details and apply at www.fnps.org/photocontest.
Find more details and apply at www.fnps.org/photocontest.
September 12, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Whether you’re photographing plants or the plant people who love them, make sure to get outside this weekend - the FNPS Photo Contest ends on Monday!
Find more details and apply at www.fnps.org/photocontest.
Find more details and apply at www.fnps.org/photocontest.
Only one more week to enter the FNPS Photo Contest! Showcase your creativity and love for Florida’s native plants by submitting your best shots.
Visit buff.ly/6xVLtUo for more information and to enter!
📸: Lilly Anderson-Messec
#FNPSPhotoContest #FloridaNativePlants
Visit buff.ly/6xVLtUo for more information and to enter!
📸: Lilly Anderson-Messec
#FNPSPhotoContest #FloridaNativePlants
September 8, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Only one more week to enter the FNPS Photo Contest! Showcase your creativity and love for Florida’s native plants by submitting your best shots.
Visit buff.ly/6xVLtUo for more information and to enter!
📸: Lilly Anderson-Messec
#FNPSPhotoContest #FloridaNativePlants
Visit buff.ly/6xVLtUo for more information and to enter!
📸: Lilly Anderson-Messec
#FNPSPhotoContest #FloridaNativePlants
August is National Will Month and to celebrate we are highlighting one of our supporters, Bryon White of Yaupon Brothers American Team.
"I have been a long time supporter of the Florida Native Plant Society and my local chapter, Pawpaw. There is no other organization that does what FNPS
"I have been a long time supporter of the Florida Native Plant Society and my local chapter, Pawpaw. There is no other organization that does what FNPS
August 28, 2025 at 10:13 PM
August is National Will Month and to celebrate we are highlighting one of our supporters, Bryon White of Yaupon Brothers American Team.
"I have been a long time supporter of the Florida Native Plant Society and my local chapter, Pawpaw. There is no other organization that does what FNPS
"I have been a long time supporter of the Florida Native Plant Society and my local chapter, Pawpaw. There is no other organization that does what FNPS
🌵 Feeling prickly? Join us for August's L&L this Friday (8/29) at noon EST with Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden's Jimmy Lange. Jimmy will present on his team's experience with cactus conservation in the Florida Keys, including the first documented extirpation of a vascular plant species in the
August 27, 2025 at 5:01 PM
🌵 Feeling prickly? Join us for August's L&L this Friday (8/29) at noon EST with Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden's Jimmy Lange. Jimmy will present on his team's experience with cactus conservation in the Florida Keys, including the first documented extirpation of a vascular plant species in the
🌿💚 October is Florida Native Plant Month! 💚🌿
October is the perfect time—flowers are blooming, the weather is cooler, and nature is ready to explore. Join the fun in style with your official Florida Native Plant Month T-shirt! Order today to get yours in time. buff.ly/gsRvW3S
October is the perfect time—flowers are blooming, the weather is cooler, and nature is ready to explore. Join the fun in style with your official Florida Native Plant Month T-shirt! Order today to get yours in time. buff.ly/gsRvW3S
August 27, 2025 at 10:16 AM
🌿💚 October is Florida Native Plant Month! 💚🌿
October is the perfect time—flowers are blooming, the weather is cooler, and nature is ready to explore. Join the fun in style with your official Florida Native Plant Month T-shirt! Order today to get yours in time. buff.ly/gsRvW3S
October is the perfect time—flowers are blooming, the weather is cooler, and nature is ready to explore. Join the fun in style with your official Florida Native Plant Month T-shirt! Order today to get yours in time. buff.ly/gsRvW3S
Don't forget to submit your photos to the 2025 Florida Native Plant Society Photo Contest! Deadline to submit is September 15th.
Visit www.fnps.org/photocontest for more information and to enter!
Visit www.fnps.org/photocontest for more information and to enter!
August 26, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Don't forget to submit your photos to the 2025 Florida Native Plant Society Photo Contest! Deadline to submit is September 15th.
Visit www.fnps.org/photocontest for more information and to enter!
Visit www.fnps.org/photocontest for more information and to enter!
Shoutout to Pais Realty, a proud sponsor of the 2025 FNPS Conference! 🌿 Founder David has spent decades leading Florida’s native plant movement -- now bringing that passion to real estate with a focus on conservation & historic properties. #FNPS #FloridaNativePlants
August 25, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Shoutout to Pais Realty, a proud sponsor of the 2025 FNPS Conference! 🌿 Founder David has spent decades leading Florida’s native plant movement -- now bringing that passion to real estate with a focus on conservation & historic properties. #FNPS #FloridaNativePlants
Happy Sunday, plant friends!
The Palmetto is here—perfect reading with your morning coffee. Inside you’ll find a celebration of plants, people, and conservation victories across FL.
🌰 Florida Scrub is Nuts (and Drupes)
🌳 Conservation Advocacy Wins
🌸 A New Orchid in Town
👉 Dive in: issuu.com/fnps/
The Palmetto is here—perfect reading with your morning coffee. Inside you’ll find a celebration of plants, people, and conservation victories across FL.
🌰 Florida Scrub is Nuts (and Drupes)
🌳 Conservation Advocacy Wins
🌸 A New Orchid in Town
👉 Dive in: issuu.com/fnps/
August 24, 2025 at 6:00 AM
Happy Sunday, plant friends!
The Palmetto is here—perfect reading with your morning coffee. Inside you’ll find a celebration of plants, people, and conservation victories across FL.
🌰 Florida Scrub is Nuts (and Drupes)
🌳 Conservation Advocacy Wins
🌸 A New Orchid in Town
👉 Dive in: issuu.com/fnps/
The Palmetto is here—perfect reading with your morning coffee. Inside you’ll find a celebration of plants, people, and conservation victories across FL.
🌰 Florida Scrub is Nuts (and Drupes)
🌳 Conservation Advocacy Wins
🌸 A New Orchid in Town
👉 Dive in: issuu.com/fnps/
If you have any cryptogamists in your life who are looking to fund their research, then the time has come! Cryptogams are plants—or plant-like organisms—such as ferns, lichens, and liverworts. Instead of flowers & seeds, they reproduce with spores. For more information, reach out to info@fnps.org.
August 23, 2025 at 10:16 AM
If you have any cryptogamists in your life who are looking to fund their research, then the time has come! Cryptogams are plants—or plant-like organisms—such as ferns, lichens, and liverworts. Instead of flowers & seeds, they reproduce with spores. For more information, reach out to info@fnps.org.