The Oregon Biodiversity Information Center is hosting our Oregon Rare Plant and Fungi meeting this spring, Thursday March 19, 2026 at 9 am – 3 pm. The purpose of the meeting is to share our proposed changes to the lists (adds, drops, name changes, status changes) and for you to share with us your comments and suggestions. Vascular plants will be discussed in the morning and non-vascular plants, fungi, and lichens in the afternoon; participants may attend any or all sessions. This year the meeting will be held in person at OSU and via Zoom in a hybrid format.
Oregon Biodiversity Information Center is housed in the Institute for Natural Resources at Portland State and Oregon State Universities. The Oregon Biodiversity Information Center's (ORBIC) primary mission is to track the distribution and status of Oregon’s flora, fauna, and funga and we manage location and population data for all species considered to be at-risk in Oregon. Information from these meetings is used to update the lists in ORBIC’s “Rare, Threatened and Endangered Species of Oregon” book to be published in 2026.
Please use this link to register to attend this meeting virtually or in-person.
At the end of the registration form, you can submit comments for any species which you think should be discussed at this meeting. If you cannot attend, you can still use this registration form to submit comments. You can also submit comments about species anytime (before or after the meeting) to [email protected].
We are sharing a list of species that will be discussed at this meeting. If you have any comments about species on that list, please provide them at the end of the registration form. If you would like to suggest a species to discuss that is not on the list, and not already in the ORBIC Rare Plant and Fungi + non-vascular plant books from 2023, please provide information about that species to [email protected].
For each species please include:
- Species scientific name
- Proposed change (add or drop)
- Pre-meeting comments (reason for proposing this change)
- Location information for the species
- Name of Sponsor(s) with contact info
- Relevant references
Please submit any questions to [email protected]. If you know any professional botanists, bryologists, lichenologists, or mycologists who focus on rare species of Oregon, please share this invitation with them.
We look forward to seeing you there,
Andrew Christensen
Nora Dunkirk
Caitlin Lawrence
Neal Robinson
Michael Russell
Lindsey Wise