Boston Flora

Tag: Ferns

  • Sunday, February 26, 1:00 pm – 4:00 pm – New England Plant Diversity: Session 2

    Keeping up with changes in plant names can be challenging, but it reflects our expanding understanding of the plant kingdom based on genetics, a closer look at plant form, and new ways of analyzing relationships. Learn how to make sense of this new plant universe from one of the best botanists in the field, Arthur Haines. In the session 2 of this 5 session New England Wild Flower Society series, students will examine tracheophyte families, starting with free-sporing plants (e.g., ferns) and ending with three major groups of seed plants: nonflowering seed plants (i.e., conifers); magnoliids (i.e., primitive dicots); and monocots.

    Note: Session 1 is a prerequisite for all other sessions; Sessions 2-5 may be taken in any order. Recommended text: Plant Systematics: A Phylogenetic Approach by Judd et al. (available on www.amazon.com)  $46 for NEWFS members, $54 for nonmembers. Register online at http://www.newfs.org/learn/our-programs/new-england-plant-diversity-session-2-1

  • Wednesday, November 9, 10:00 am – Introduction to Ferns

    Wednesday, November 9, 10:00 am – Introduction to Ferns

    The Garden Club of the Back Bay continues its 2016/2017 investigation into The Prehistoric Garden with a meeting and lecture on Wednesday, November 9 on Introduction to Ferns, at 10 am at The College Club of Boston, 44 Commonwealth Avenue. Beautiful and flowerless, ferns are among the most ancient plants in the world. Learn to distinguish among the most common ferns of New England through lecture and examination of fresh plant material. Don Lubin will be our featured lecturer. Don has been growing ferns since 1980, and doing field identification since 1991. He reset the fern labels at the Garden In The Woods in Framingham, and has led workshops and field trips since 1998 for the New England Wild Flower Society and others, previously with co-teacher Ray Abair of Middleboro MA. Don has found uncommon ferns and donated more than 100 specimens to herbaria, including a few state and many county records, mainly to the New England Botanical Club collection at the Asa Gray Herbarium at Harvard University. Don assisted Cheryl Lowe and Elizabeth Farnsworth in their revision of Boughton Cobb’s Field Guide to Ferns.  Club members will receive notification of the meeting. If you are not a Club member but wish to attend, please email info@bostonflora.com.

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  • Saturday, July 16, 11:00 am – 3:30 pm – Introduction to Native Ferns

    Beautiful and flowerless, ferns are among the most ancient plants in the world. Learn to distinguish among the most common ferns of New England through lecture, microscopic examination of fresh plant material, and field study. By the end of this New England Wild Flower Society class, you will be familiar with most of the ferns you encounter in the woods. Bring lunch and a hand lens if you have one. The class will be led by Don Lubin at Garden in the Woods on Saturday, July 16 from 11 – 3:30, and is $60 for NEWFS members, $72 for nonmembers. (Garden Club of the Back Bay members note that Mr. Lubin will speak to our Club in November, 2016, on the topic of ferns, as part of our “Prehistoric Garden” year of programming.) Register online at http://www.newfs.org/learn/our-programs/introduction-to-native-ferns.

  • Sunday, June 12, 10:00 am – 2:00 pm – Fern Walk and Botanical Drawing

    Bartholomew’s Cobble is known for its extraordinary diversity of fern species. During this Trustees of Reservations hike and drawing workshop with our friend, renowned ecologist and botanical artist Elizabeth Farnsworth, learn identification strategies for ferns,and how to apply these identification skills to create beautiful, accurately-detailed botanical drawings of ferns. Trustees members $28, nonmembers $35. To register, and for more information, call 413-298-3239, x 3013, or visit www.thetrustees.org. Gymnocarpium jessoense copyright 2016 Elizabeth Farnsworth.

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  • Saturday, September 12, 9:30 am – 12:00 noon – Introduction to Local Ferns

    On Saturday, September 12 at 9:30 am, join Randy Stone, retired DCR Forester, for a brief introduction to fern identification at the Millers River Environmental Center, 100 Main Street in Athol, before heading out for a walk in North Quabbin to ID ferns in the field. Questions: Dave Small, 978-413-1772 or Dave@dhsmall.net. Free – if weather is questionable please call at least an hour before the scheduled meeting.  Image from www.quabbinphotogroup.org.

  • Saturday, July 25, 1:00 pm – 4:00 pm – Fern Walk

    Elizabeth Farnsworth, botanist and nationally recognized fern expert, will lead a Fern Walk on Masson Ridge. The 183-acre property has been protected with a Forever Wild conservation restriction held by Mount Grace and sits in the middle of the Satan’s Kingdom Wildlife Management Area. This event is free. Elizabeth Farnsworth is Senior Research Ecologist with the New England Wild Flower Society and past Garden Club of the Back Bay speaker. Her unique background as a botanist, professor, illustrator and author provide her with a wealth of information to share during this botanical exploration. Meet at West Road in Northfield. For complete information visit The Mount Grace Land Conservation Trust at www.mountgrace.org.  Image from www.mywoodlandgarden.com.

  • Friday, October 3, 6:45 pm – A Biogeographic Perspective on the Fern Genus Polystichum

    The New England Botanical Club (NEBC), founded in 1895, is a non-profit organization that promotes the study of plants of North America, especially the flora of New England and adjacent areas. The Club publishes the journal Rhodora, holds monthly meetings during the academic year (usually at Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts), maintains an herbarium of more than 253,000 sheets, has a small library, and annually grants a graduate student research award and Fernald publication award.

    The New England Botanical Club will hold its October meeting beginning at 6:45 on Friday, October 3 in the Haller Lecture Hall, Room 102, found inside the door to the Harvard Museum of Natural History entrance at 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge.  The speaker will be Dr. David S. Barrington, Professor of Plant Biology, Director of the Pringle Herbarium at University of Vermont, speaking on A Biogreographic Perspective on the Fern Genus Polystichum.  The meeting is open to the public.  For more information you may email neystersmith@bentley.edu.

     

  • Saturday, September 20, 11:30 am – 3:00 pm – The Ferns of Horn Pond Mountain

    Ferns have been around for more than 300 million years, and in that time the diversification of their form has been phenomenal. Join Don Lubin and the New England Wild Flower Society on Saturday, September 20 at 11:30 am as Don investigates the ferns of Horn Pond Reservation in Woburn, MA. Horn Pond is crossed by rocks such as diorite and gabbro, making it a great home for ferns that prefer a “sweeter” habitat. We hope to see two Asplenium species, two Woodsias, and a Selaginella, as well as numerous more common ferns. Expect some climbing and off-trail hiking. Bring a hand lens if you have one, and any fern fronds you would like Don to identify. $33 for NEWFS members, $40 for nonmembers.  Register at http://www.newfs.org/learn/our-programs/ferns-of-horn-pond-mountain.

  • Saturday, June 14, 12:00 noon – 4:00 pm – Fabulous Ferns of the Blue Hills

    Just minutes from downtown Boston, the Blue Hills Reservation is the largest conserved tract in the greater Boston area. It contains many wild treasures—from coyotes to copperheads, dogwoods to lady’s-slippers, and turkey vultures to dragonflies—and, of course, a wealth of fern species. Hiking along the northern Border Path, you will see more than a third of all the fern species native to Massachusetts as well as some hybrid ferns, several club-mosses, and a horsetail. Wear long pants (there is poison ivy on the trail) and suitable footwear; bring a hand lens if you have one, and plenty of water. The hike is sponsored by the New England Wild Flower Society on Saturday, June 14, from 12-4, and the fee is $23 for NEWFS members, $28 for nonmembers. Led by Don Lubin. You may register at http://www.newfs.org/learn/catalog/fdt1032.

  • Saturday, October 4 – Sunday, October 19 – Madagascar With New England Wild Flower Society

    The New England Wild Flower Society invites you to join them to explore the natural heritage and unique flora and wildlife of Madagascar in October, 2014. This 16-day expedition offers travel enthusiasts an exceptional opportunity to become acquainted with the flora and fauna of Madagascar.

    Madagascar is the fourth largest island in the world, isolated from the African continent for 30 million years. It is home to at least 12,000 plants—a high percentage that are unique to the country. Ninety‑five percent of the lemurs and reptiles, 80 percent of the flowering plants, 98 percent of the palms, and more than 100 birds are found nowhere else.

    Leading this tour will be Herilala Jonah, a superb Madagascar naturalist. Representing the Society will be staff member John Burns.

    The itinerary includes:

    • Antananarivo & the Lemur Park. Visit the capital city of Madagascar and this private reserve established in 2001 for lemur education and conservation.

    • Perinet Reserve, in the eastern rain forests. Look for the largest of the lemurs, the indri, noted for its ear-shattering cries and agility in traveling through the rain forest canopy. Explore the moist forest with trees covered in epiphytes, ferns, and large lianas with bamboo below.

    • Berenty Reserve, an internationally acclaimed wildlife reserve in the semi‑arid south. Enjoy the unique spiny desert plus a profusion of ring-tailed lemurs, sifakas, lepilemurs, and flying foxes.

    • Reserve de Nahampoana, an excellent botanical reserve near Fort Dauphin.

    • Isalo National Park, an extraordinary landscape in the southwest with arid sandstone ridges sculpted by wind and water, with lemurs and endemic plants.

    We hope you will join us for this adventure, and discover the magnificence of Madagascar in 2014!

    For more trip information, you can download the trip brochure by visiting http://www.newfs.org/images/learn/Madagascar%20brochure%20from%20Betchart-%20final.pdf.  Or contact:

    Betchart Expeditions, Inc.
    17050 Montebello Road
    Cupertino, CA 95014-5435

    Tel: (800) 252-4910 or (408) 252-4910
    Fax: (408) 252-1444Email: info@betchartexpeditions.com

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