WV Native Plant Society Spring Meeting & Field Trip
The West Virginia Native Plant Society will be holding their Spring board meeting at Glenville University and a spring flora walk along Leading Creek in Gilmer County on Saturday April 19, 2025.
All of the programs are open to the public.
Schedule: 10:00-11:00 am - Board meeting - Room 107 of Science Hall
11:00-12:00 pm - Herbarium tour
12:00-1:00 pm - Lunch (on your own)
1:00-4:00 pm - Leading Creek Spring flora walk
- Meet in the Clark Hall parking lot off of Linn Street on the Glenville University campus. The meeting will be in room 107 of Science Hall. After the meeting we will meet up with Professor Jeremy Keene and tour the herbarium.
- Lunch is own your own, and can also be purchased at the Mollohan Campus Community Center (MCCC) 315.
- After lunch, we will travel approximately three miles out of town to Leading Creek road for our walk. We will walk along this road starting approximately at coordinates 38° 58.933’ -80° 49.817’ if parking is adequate. The rich woodland hillside is loaded with Spring wild flowers, including Green Violet Hybanthus (Cubelium) concolor and the shrub Leatherwood Dirca palustris.