In celebration of our 29th Annual Siskiyou County Mother’s Day Wildflower Show, a presentation of native wildflowers will be on display at the Siskiyou Golden Fairgrounds Mother’s Day Market at 1712 Fairlane Road in Yreka. The show will be open to the public on Saturday, May 7, from 10 am to 5 pm, and Sunday, May 8, from 10 am to 3 pm. It will include a large display of native plants. Shasta Chapter CNPS will also be present to answer questions and sell books. (Volunteers to help man the Shasta Chapter CNPS booth would be most appreciated. Please email the Chapter at shastacnps@gmail.com to volunteer to help!)
If you can’t visit the wildflower show in person, don’t forget that three virtual slideshows of Siskiyou County native plants—one each covering trees, shrubby plants, and herbaceous wildflowers—have a permanent home here, on Shasta Chapter CNPS’s website at https://shasta-cnps.org/wildflower-show/
The wildflower show will also include our 11th Annual Wildflower Photo Contest. The photo contest will be held online, posted on Shasta Chapter CNPS’s website. Voting will be open from May 7 through 14; further information will be posted at the beginning of May.
To join the contest, please submit up to three of your native wildflower photos in color, black & white, closeup, or landscape to erin.lonergan@usda.gov. (Please see photo requirements in the flyer, above.) Live native plants will be awarded for first, second, and third place finishes in the photo contest.
~Erin Lonergan
USFS Forest Botanist
Klamath National Forest