75 Anniversary Challenge

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

34 People have done the Challenge and submitted their forms!

The greatest number identified is by Darrell Honeycutt in Uwharrie Chapter , followed by Sally Price in Oconee Bell Chapter, and 3rd is Karen Mulcahy in the CE Coastal Plain.

Great Id-ing by every one!

1	Nancy	Anderson	Oconee Bell	75
2	Ranita	Anderson	Triangle – Margaret Reid	91
3	Joan	Boeing	Southern Piedmont	25
4	Jaclyn	Bonim	Triangle – Margaret Reid	260
5	Margaret	Cobb	Triad	289
6	Crystal	Cockman	Uwharrie	75
7	Carolina	Corona	Land of the Sky	193
8	Bettina	Darveaux	Triangle – Margaret Reid	161
9	Oliver	Enseling	Triangle – Margaret Reid	215
10	Ann-Marie	Gerney	Triangle – Margaret Reid	77
11	Angela	Gaskell	Sandhills	129
12	Drew	Gentry	Triangle – Margaret Reid	75
13	Steve	Gerney	Triange – Margaret Reid	79
14	Mirande	Fleming	Sandhills	91
15	Robin	Godwin	Triad	75
16	Dell	Hagwood	NE Coastal Plain	75
17	Brett	Hopkins	Land of the Sky	75
18	Darrell	Huneycutt	Uwharrie	508
19	Hugh	Irwin	Land of the Sky	150
20	Jacob	Joseph	Land of the Sky	78
21	Joe	King	Land of the Sky	75
22	William	Kutash	Oconee Bell	85
23	Skadi	Kylander	Central Coastal Plain	75
24	Amy	Mackintosh	Triangle – Margaret Reid	75
25	Annie	Martin	Land of the Sky	74
26	Jeff	Martin	Southern Piedmont	75
27	NancyAnn	Moore	Triangle – Margaret Reid	120
28	Karen Mulcahy	Mulchahy	CE Coastal Plain	365
29	Dawn-Michele	Oliver	Triad	85
30	April	Ozamiz	Triangle – Margaret Reid	75
31	Michele	Palmer	Southern Piedmont	108
32	Sally	Price	Oconee Bell	619
33	Alysia	Richard	Triangle – Margaret Reid	287
34	Cindy	Richards	Triangle – Margaret Reid	90
35	Louise	Romanow	Triangle – Margaret Reid	75
36	Annkatarin	Rose	Blue Ridge	75
37	Thomas	Sanders	Foothills	75
38	Barbara	Smith	CE Coastal Plain	8
39	Matt	Spangler	Triangle – Margaret Reid	346
40	Anne Marie	Talbott	Triangle – Margaret Reid	78
41	Linda	Wagner	CE Coastal Plain	22
42	Ann	Walter-Fromson	Triad	88
43	Brends	Warlick	Southern Piedmont	116
44	Gayle	Watkins	Oconee Bell	159
45	Laura Smith	Williams	Land of the Sky	144
46	Jean	Woods	Land of the Sky	98
47	Cynthia	Woodsong	Triangle – Margaret Reid	75