Serving the greater Bozeman area, including Gallatin, Park and Sweet Grass counties.
For more information contact Gretchen Rupp (406) 586-8363 [email protected]. Or visit our Facebook Page.
Interested in Native Plant Landscaping in our area? Click here.
Fall Get-Together
Join your local plant friends for our annual fall potluck picnic! This will be a (safe, outdoors) way to catch up on the summer and brainstorm ideas for fall/winter chapter events. Lemonade, wine and beer will be provided.
Date and Time: Wednesday, September 8, 5:30-8:00 p.m.
Location: Lindley Park Pavilion, Bozeman
What to Bring: Food to share, your own utensils.
Questions? Contact Gretchen Rupp, (406)586-8363, [email protected]
Past Programs
Video recordings from some of our winter 2020-2021 Zoom programs are still available on our Valley of Flower YouTube channel.
Projects
The Valley Flowers Chapter maintains a native-plant garden in central Bozeman, to demonstrate the principles of gardening to benefit pollinators. Here is a fact sheet about the garden.
Field Trip Report
On a May day a while back, 9 curious folk joined Jeff Copeland to see what was in bloom in the foothills east of Bozeman. Quite a lot, as it turned out – Denise Montgomery compiled a list of 48 bloomers, nearly all of which the collective brain was able to identify to species. Chapter members look forward to these field trips, and newcomers are very welcome!
BLOOMS OF MOUNT ELLIS TRAIL – GALLATIN COUNTY, MONTANA
MAY 23, 2015
BOTANICAL NAME COMMON NAME
Amelanchier alnifolia – Serviceberry
Anemone multifida – Cut-leaf Anemone
Anemone patens (Pulsitilla patens) – Pasque Flower
Antennaria microphylla rosea – Rosy pussytoes
Antennaria microphylla – Pussytoes
Arabis lyallii – Lyall’s Rockcress
Arnica cordifolia – Heartleaf Arnica
Balsamorhiza sagittata – Arrowleaf balsamroot
Castilleja suphurea – Sulphur Paintbrush
Cerastium sp. – Chickweed
Claytonia sp. – Spring beauty
Clematis hirsuitissima – Sugar Bowl Clematis
Clematis occidentalis – Western Blue Virgin’s Bower
Delphinium bicolor – Little Larkspur
Dodecatheon sp. – Shooting Star
Draba sp.
Erythronium grandiflorum – Glacier Lily
Fragaria virginiana – Strawberry
Frasera speciosa – Green Gentian/Monument Plant
Fritillaria pudica – Yellow Bells
Geranium viscossisimum – Sticky geranium
Geum triflorum – Prairie smoke
Hackelia floribunda – Many -flowered Stickseed/Forget-me-not
Hydrophyllum capitatum – Ball-headed waterleaf
