NPSOT-Williamson County Chapter
Native Plant Society of Texas (NPSOT-Wilco)
Volunteer with us Saturday, February 10, 2024 from 10am-1pm in SE Round Rock as we rescue plants from a small meadow site prior to construction. There is roadside parking, but it’s a 1/5 of a mile walk on sidewalks to get to the site. The plant list and further details can be found at the SignUp link below.
You must be a current NPSOT member (any chapter) and at least 18 to attend. (Join NPSOT or renew here.)
Learn more about the Native Plant Rescue Project at this link.
— by Cindy Chrisler
Cold weather did not deter eleven NPSOT members from conducting the January 20, 2024 plant survey at Hidden Springs Preserve.
Four sites in the preserve were scoured for signs of forbs, shrubs, and trees that are more easily identified at other times of the year. Notable finds were white rosinweed, green comet milkweed, and the seed pod of a primrose. This preserve will be spectacular in the spring, with firewheel, milkweeds, coneflowers, and more wildflowers that the group observed beginning to emerge.
This is the 9th survey taken at the preserve in a series of 12 that will be conducted in each of the months of the year, taken over four years.
See photos from this field trip and others in our album=>
Read more about our plant surveys at this link.
NPSOT’s Native Plant Rescue Project is compiling a history of Williamson County’s MoKan Prairie, an area with a prairie remnant in eastern Round Rock facing increasing amounts of development. We are specifically looking for first-hand accounts, memories, photos and oral stories of the MoKan Prairie area. We would love to hear from you!
Contact plantrescue-wilco@npsot.org.
We plan to present the history of the MoKan Prairie at a future NPSOT meeting.