75th Anniversary Plant Id Challenge
Why Participate?
- Explore new places
- Improve your plant identification skills
- Learn more about North Carolina’s flora
- Celebrate NCNPS’s 75th anniversary
Earn a Commemorative Water Bottle
Several people have turned in their completed forms for the challenge and will be getting their 75th Water bottle shortly. If you identify and turn in your form, you will receive this 17 oz. Recycled Aluminum water botte.
| A Few Guidelines: • Membership required – You must be an NCNPS member to participate. • What counts? – Any native NC plant species, including trees, shrubs, wildflowers (forbs), mosses, lichens, and ferns. • Where to look – Plants must be found in the wild, not in gardens or any cultivated area. • What to record – Common name, scientific name (genus and specie), date, and location (general location, such as “along a river in Brevard, NC”) for each plant. |
Deadline – Submit your completed form by September 1, 2026.
How to Submit: Use our fillable PDF on your computer, tablet, or phone—or print and fill it out by hand. Here’s a Word doc version if you prefer.
Then email it to 75challenge@ncwildflower.org or mail it to:
Jean Woods, 200 S College Row, Brevard, NC 28712
. I hope to see every chapter represented. Here are some recent submissions:
1 | Darrell | Huneycutt | Uwharrie | 175 |
2 | Jacob | Joseph | Land of the Sky | 78 |
3 | Brett | Hopkins | Land of the Sky | 75 |
4 | Louise | Romanow | Ried | 75 |
5 | Nancy | Anderson | Oconee Bell | 75 |
6 | Jean | Woods | Land of the Sky | 98 |
7 | Angela | Gaskell | Sandhills | 129 |
8 | Thomas | Sanders | Foothills | 75 |
9 | Steve | Gerney | Margaret Reid | 79 |
10 | Sally | Price | Oconee Bell | 227 |
11 | Sharon | Abernethy | Southern Piedmont | 75 |