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	Crystal	Cockman	Uwharrie	75
3	Carolina	Corona	Land of the Sky	193
4	Bettina	Darveaux	Triangle – Margaret Reid	161
5	Ann-Marie	Garney	Triangle – Margaret Reid	77
6	Angela	Gaskell	Sandhills	129
7	Drew	Gentry	Triangle – Margaret Reid	75
8	Steve	Gerney	Triange – Margaret Reid	79
9	Ruth	Goodwin	Triad	75
10	Dell	Hagwood	NE Coastal Plain	75
11	Brett	Hopkins	Land of the Sky	75
12	Darrell	Huneycutt	Uwharrie	508
13	Jacob	Joseph	Land of the Sky	78
14	Joe	King	Land of the Sky	75
15	William	Kutash	Oconee Bell	85
16	Skadi	Kylander	Central Coastal Plain	75
17	Amy	Mackintosh	Triangle – Margaret Reid	75
18	Annie	Martin	Land of the Sky	74
19	NancyAnn	Moore	Triangle – Margaret Reid	120
20	Karen Mulcahy	Mulchahy	CE Coastal Plain	365
21	Dawn-Michele	Oliver	Triad	85
22	Michele	Palmer	Southern Piedmont	108
23	Sally	Price	Oconee Bell	445
24	Cindy	Richards	Triangle – Margaret Reid	90
25	Louise	Romanow	Triangle – Margaret Reid	75
26	Annkatarin	Rose	Blue Ridge	75
27	Thomas	Sanders	Foothills	75
28	Barbara	Smith	CE Coastal Plain	8
29	Linda	Wagner	CE Coastal Plain	22
30	Ann	Walter-Fromson	Triad	88
31	Brends	Warlick	Southern Piedmont	116
32	Laura Smith	Williams	Land of the Sky	144
33	Jean	Woods	Land of the Sky	98
34	Cynthia	Woodsong	Triangle – Margaret Reid	75