2025 Spring Wildflower Show
North Coast’s celebration of wild California plants
Fri May 2 2-8pm • Sat May 3 10-4pm • Sun May 4 10-4pm
Art Night – Fri May 2 7-9pm
Jefferson Community Center • 1000 B Street Eureka
In-person • Free • Accessible
2025 theme: Rhododendrons and their Relatives
- ON DISPLAY: Fresh labeled wildflowers and other wild plants from all over Humboldt and Del Norte. Find out which are native, which are newcomers (introduced) and which are harmful (invasive).
- ART SHARE APRIL : “Little Free Wildflower Galleries” located across our community. Make & take wildflower art.
- Art Night – Friday eve, 7-9pm. Come Paint & Sketch Wildflowers on exhibit. A chance to study, up close, wildflowers sometimes difficult to view in person. Patricia Sennott and Annie Reid will be on hand to demonstrate & assist. Bring your preferred art supplies, or use materials on hand.
- BRING-YOUR-SPECIMENS – Experts will help identify your cuttings or photos of wild plants. (Don’t pick anything rare!)
- INVASIVE PLANTS – Learn to identify the bad species, and find out what to do about them.
- POP-UP TALKS – Informal talks given next to a table full of relevant cuttings:
Saturday 11:00 Griff – Manzanita and Wildlife
11:30 Four Students – Fire, diseases, and Ericaceae
12:00 Paul Wilson – Salal fruit
12:30 Paul Wilson – Violet pollination
1:00 Joann Kerns – Why Plant Natives
Sunday 11:00 Luca Sulkess – Buzz Pollination
11:30 Joann Kerns – Why Plant Natives
12:00 Luca Sulkess – Buzz Pollination
12:30 TBA
1:00 TBA - MERCH – Buy CNPS t-shirts, totes, and posters.
- NATIVE PLANT SALE – Also visit the concurrent plant sale Sat May 3 & Sun May 4 at our nursery at Fresh Water Farms Preserve. (Sign-up online for Saturday times.)
- EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES: Flower Types, Flower Parts, Pollination, Is It OK to Pick Wildflowers?, Flower Activities, Uses of Native Plants
