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  • Sunday, August 11, 10:00 am – 3:00 pm – Introduction to Sedges

    Environmental consultant and plant taxonomist Lisa Standley will teach a Native Plant Trust workshop on Sunday, August 11  from 10 – 3 focusing on understanding the diversity of the genus Carex, The non-Carex sedges are important ecological indicators and dominants in many wetland systems. The group includes 11 genera—recognizable by macro characteristics—and 80 species. Join us for a basic review of their identification features to build confidence in your own abilities to recognize species in the field. The workshop will include a lecture and discussion, keying practice, and field identification. Bring a lunch. $85 for NPT members, $100 for nonmembers. Register at http://www.nativeplanttrust.org/events/introduction-sedges-non-carex-genera/

  • Saturday, August 5 (all day) – NEBS Collecting Trip to Middlesex County, Connecticut (Vascular Plants)

    • Middlesex County is one of the most under-collected areas in Connecticut, so this day-long collection trip will be particularly valuable. The county is rich in habitat diversity: it has 110 named hills and mountains; two rivers (Mattabesset and Connecticut) with associated floodplain forests, marshes, and beaches; upland forests; successional farmlands; and coastal habitats including brackish and salt marshes, sandy beaches, woodlands, and grasslands. The county contains at least 16 of the Critical Habitat types recognized by the CT Department of Energy and Environmental Protection. Sites that we plan to visit include Wangunk Meadows WMA, Meshomasic State Forest, Cockaponset State Forest, and The Preserve State Forest. Some sites may include forays off-trail in somewhat wet or steep terrain.
    • Leaders: Lisa Standley, NEBS Curator of Vascular Plants; Sarah Taylor, Scientific Collections Manager, University of Connecticut, G.S. Torrey Herbarium; Elizabeth Kneiper, NEBS Curator of Cryptogams.
    • Register here so leaders may be in touch with you about this trip

  • Friday, June 1, 6:45 pm – The Diversity, Evolution, and Ecology of Carex: A Personal Perspective

    The New England Botanical Club will hold its June meeting on Friday, June 1 in the Haller Lecture Hall, Room 102, Harvard Museum of Natural History, 24 Oxford Street, with a talk by Dr. Lisa Standley, Chief Environmental Scientist, VHB, Inc., of Watertown, and New England Botanical Club Curator of Vascular Plants.  She will speak on The Diversity, Evolution, and Ecology of Carex: A Personal Perspective.  The talk is open to the public.  For more information visit www.rhodora.org.  Dr. Standley is the author of the New Field Guide to the Carex of New England.