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2023 Photo Contest

The 2023 PNPS Facebook Photo Contest has ended without receiving any entries. The Board will review the contest idea and come up with a proposal for next year.

2022 Photo Contest

WINNER – Monongahela Barbara’s buttons, Marshallia pulchra,  photo by Mark Bowers, Fayette Co., PA, July 2022


2021 Photo Contest

WINNER – American cancer-root, Conopholis americana taken by Larry G. Laird on May 17, 2021 at Michaux Forest.

2020 Photo Contest

WINNER – Fire Pink, Silene virginica – Raccoon Creek Wildflower Reserve by Pete Swauger

2019 Photo Contest

WINNER – Geranium maculatum – High Knob – Sullivan Co – Nancy Hornberger

2018 Photo Contest

Winner!  Ghost Plants (Monotropa uniflora) –  Pike County – Janice Wells Annunziata

2017 Photo Contest

Winner!  Goldenclub – Orontium aquaticum, Pine Grove Furnace State Park – Kathleen Engle.

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