April is now National Native Plant Month for the United States
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As of March 25th, 2021, the United States has an official National Native Plant Month! The Florida Native Plant Society has been celebrating Florida Native Plant Month every October since 2015 . Most recently, in 2019, Commissioner of Agriculture Nikki Fried declared October Florida Native Plant Month during a ceremony at Native Nurseries of Tallahassee. We have been following the quick introduction and passage of Senate Resolution 109, co-sponsored by Rob Portman (R-OR) and Mazie K. Hirono (D-HI) 1 . Introduced to the Senate on March 15th, it was passed by a unanimous vote on March 25th. 2 We signed on as a supporting organization for this resolution and wrote to Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) and Senator Rick Scott (R-FL) requesting that they support the resolution. The Washington Native Plant Society holds a Native Plant Appreciation month in April, and this year was even able to have April 2021 proclaimed as such by the State of Washington 3 . Executive Director Juliet Rynear on t