Next Meeting

November 7, 2025 featuring a lecture by Dr. Chris Martine. Hybrid and over Zoom. Visit our 2025-2026 Program Calendar.

Announcements

Issue #1006 of Rhodora is available. See this page for free electronic access for members through BioOne.

Special Publication describing the Vascular Flora of Franklin County, Massachusetts is available for purchase and free PDF download here.

“NEBS Mission and Vision statements and Strategic Goals for 2020-2025″

Lecture Series Videos

Video recordings of some past lectures are available on the Videos of Past Meetings page.

Upcoming Field Trips

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NEBS Day Field Trips and Collecting Trips in 2025

DAY FIELD TRIPS

Day field trips are informal, small-group outings to explore interesting places and to see (not collect) interesting plants, facilitated by knowledgeable and enthusiastic leaders. Bring your lunch, water, insect repellent, field guides, hand lens, and curiosity. Be prepared for the terrain and level of difficulty indicated for each trip. Please register at least 1 week in advance to get meeting time, location, and directions. Trips may be cancelled if enrollment is low or if inclement weather. Please note each trip has a capacity limit.

Saturday, September 13, 2025 (10 AM to 4PM) – Biking and Botanizing, Mass Central Rail Trail, Rutland, Massachusetts

  • Leaders: Bob Wernerehl, state botanist of Massachusetts, Vice President of NEBS; Matt Charpentier, Field Botanist, Librarian for NEBS, and Allen Milby, Curatorial Assistant for Harvard University Herbaria, Assistant Curator for NEBS
  • NEBS invites you to a special biking and botany trip on the Mass Central Rail Trail. We’ll bike seven miles through Rutland, Oakham and Barre, Massachusetts, then turn around and bike back. There will be plenty of opportunities to park our bikes and wander off the trail into forests, rock outcrops and wetlands. The trip leaders completed a full reconnaissance of this section in early August and found it to be quite productive for interesting habitats and plants. Trail conditions were generally excellent. The surface is packed gravel and mostly smooth with only a very few soft spots. Either a mountain bike or road bike will work fine on this trail. There is at least one excellent sedge meadow and other wetlands that are best explored with footwear that can get wet, so in addition to your lunch, you may want to fit in an extra pair of footwear. There should be plenty of Asteraceae in bloom. 
  • Terrain: Variable
  • Capacity TBD
  • Register here at this link so leaders may be in touch with you about the trip.

 

NEBS COLLECTING FORAYS

We have completed all of our collecting forays for the 2025 season. Please check back late winter/early Spring for our 2026 dates.