About Us
Biennial Plant Sale
Looking for trillium, rare ferns, white trout lily, green dragon? These are some of the plants you may find at our biennial plant sale. It is held mid-spring on even years as our primary fundraiser. Collected from our members gardens, you will find numerous native plants, some quite rare, as well as garden plants. Plants are priced well below native plant nursery prices, and you have a clean conscience that they aren't wild dug! Even years–2020, 2022, etc.
Field Botony
info to come
Clinton Herbarium, Buffalo Museum of Science
Founded in 1862 and named after George Clinton, the museum's first president. The collection contains approximately 120,000 plant and mushroom specimans. The herbarium is currently maintained by volunteers from the NFBS.
Plant Surveys
info to come
MADCapHorse
MADCapHorse: A Revised Checklist of the Vascular Plants of the Niagara Frontier Region: Flora of the Niagara Frontier Region, Third Supplement. By Patricia M. Eckel. 2005.
From the intro of MADCapHorse: The mnemonic device MADCapHorse is a handy guide used by field botanists. It aides in identifying tree and shrub species with opposite leaves (Maple, Ash, Dogwood, CAPrifoliaceae and HORSEchestnut). It is not fully discriminative as many of the herbaceous families and genera presented here also have opposite leaves. Most conspicuously, all Mint species (family Lamiaceae) have opposite, simple (but not compound) leaves as do several important genera in the Rubiaceae.
Pdf: http://www.mobot.org/plantscience/ResBot/Flor/Madcaphorse-Eckel.pdf
Eckert Herbarium, Buffalo State College
From Buffalo States website: the Eckert Herbarium is named for the late Dr. Theodore Eckert, a distinguished teaching professor. He was the herbariums first curator, and his specimens formed the basis of the original collection. The collection features the vascular and mycological flora of Western New York. The majority of the specimens date from the 60's, 70's and 80's; the earliest date from 1861 through the turn of the 20th century.
Collections include vascular plants, fungi and lichens.