Every year the Wissahickon Nature Club holds a late summer outing at Jennings Environmental Education Center to enjoy the wide variety of wildflowers that grow on the prairie.

This year the outing will remember our late president Chuck Tague who passed away in June.

What: Wissahickon Nature Club outing led by Dianne Machesney

When: Saturday, August 6, 10:00am

Where: Jennings Environmental Education Center, also called Jennings Prairie, Butler County.  Directions From Pittsburgh: 79N to 422E roughly 5.8 miles to 528N. Go 7 miles. Meet in the Jennings Prairie parking lot on the left (west) side of the road.

Bring binoculars, field guides, lunch, beverages and water for the trail. The Prairie is hot and shadeless. Wear a hat and sunscreen.

This walk is open to the public. All are welcome and encouraged to bring a friend.

We’re sure to see Culvers root, tall sunflowers, dense blazing star and purple fringed orchids.  And though we’ll focus on flowers, Wissahickon is a “general” nature club so we’ll look at everything that strikes our fancy — flowers, birds, butterflies and all.

Click on the links above to read more about the flowers.

(photo at Jennings by Kate St. John, photo of Chuck Tague in 2011 by Marianne Atkinson)