Until further notice, send any comments/corrections to the table below to Bobby Hattaway at botanikman (at) g-net.net. For any NEW/2021 trip offerings, please contact the Field Trip Chairs Susan and Todd Morrell at: scroz9 (at) yahoo.com or todd (at) morrellvaluation.com .
Subject to change; specific trip information will be posted under Upcoming Field Trips prior to the date of trip.
| Day | Date | Month | Time | Name | Focus | Leader(s) | County |
| Saturday | 20 | February | 9:00-5:00 | Lost Creek Forest, Greenwood’s Big Woods, Wolf Creek Trout Lily Preserve |
original old growth and wetlands communities | Beth Grant | Thomas and Grady |
| Saturday | 27 | February | 1:00 | Pace’s Mill Unit, CRN Recreation Area |
trout lilies | Susan Hanson Susan Morrell |
Cobb |
| Saturday | 27 | March | Pocket of Pigeon Mountain | early spring wildflowers | Mike Christison Richard Ware | Walker | |
| Saturday | 27 | March | Savannah-Ogeechee Canal Nature Center |
diverse array of plant species (ca. 200) including Needlepalm & the seldom seen Swamp Jessamine (Gelsemium rankinii) |
Bobby Hattaway | Chatham | |
| TBD | TBD | March | Little Mulberry Creek Park | early spring wildflowers incldg bloodroot, rue anemone, dog’s tongue (Cynoglossum virginianum), and the rare Veratrum woodii |
Linda Chafin | Gwinnett | |
| Saturday | 10 | April | 2:00 | West Atlanta | spring ephemerals, old growth woods in an urban park setting |
Lisa Kruse Kathryn Kolb |
Fulton |
| Saturday | 10 | April | Cloudland Canyon State Park | red trillium, larkspur, violets, and more |
Rich Reaves | Dade | |
| Sunday | 11 | April | 10:00-1:00 | Rising Fawn Gardens | Lookout Mountain trillium, shooting stars |
Rich Reaves | Dade |
| Saturday | 17 | April | Cohutta Mountains Forest Service Roads |
Roadside Botanizing | Rich Reeves | Fannin & surrounding | |
| Saturday | 24 | April | Turkeybeard Bluff, Sprewell Bluff WMA |
turkeybeard, squareheads, showy scutellaria, and other Pine Mountain specialties |
Hal Massie | Talbot/Meriwether | |
| Saturday | 24 | April | Chickamauga National Battlefield Park | April flora of the Cedar Glades | Mike Christison Richard Ware | Catoosa | |
| Friday | 30 | April | 10:00 | Mulky Gap | pink lady slippers | Clayton Webster | Union |
| TBD | TBD | April | Lake Winfield Scott, Jarrard Gap Trail |
abundant So App wildflowers; trilliums |
Linda Chafin | Union | |
| Saturday | 22 | May | Flint River canoe trip | shoals spiderlilies, Hymenocallis coronaria | Hal Massie | Talbot/Upson | |
| Saturday – Monday |
29-31 | May | Specific trips still in the works |
Roadsides – Cohuttas, FS Road 42, milkweeds, trilllium, ladyslippers, geraniums, trilliums, but wait, there’s more |
Hal Massie Rich Reaves |
TBD | |
| Saturday | 5 | June | Kingfisher Pond Recreation Area/Savannah NWR |
majestic bottomland hardwood forest with Needlepalms |
Bobby Hattaway | Jasper (SC) | |
| Sunday | 6 | June | Big Hammock Natural Area | approx. bloom time for Elliott’s plume & the uncommon Myrtle oak |
Bobby Hattaway | Tattnall | |
| Saturday-Sunday | 10-11 | July | Waycross GA area | Roadside Botanizing – Bartram’s rose gentian, Gordonia, Spoon Flower, night-flowering wild petunia, pitcher plants |
Rich Reaves | Ware | |
| TBD | TBD | July | Lake Winfield Scott lake trail and campgrounds |
Summer wildflowers, esp composites, yellow fringed orchid, turk’s cap lily, and others |
Linda Chafin | Union | |
| Saturday | 2 | October | Sandhills WMA West Tract | Sandhills wildflowers | Hal Massie | Taylor | |
| Saturday | 16 | October | George L. Smith State Park near Twin City | Bobby Hattaway | Emanuel | ||
| Sunday | 17 | October | Fall trip to Big Hammock Natural Area (including blooming woody goldenrod) | Bobby Hattaway | Tattnall | ||
| Thursday | 11 | November | FDR State Park | Fall foliage and wildflowers | Hal Massie | Harris and Meriwether | |
| Friday | 26 | November | Pine Mountain | Black Friday Botanical Ramble | Hal Massie | Harris and Meriwether |