Learning Plant Families

David DuBois, Director of Stewardship at Baltimore Woods Nature Center

Sunday July 27th | 9 am – 4 pm

What: Knowing plant families is an extremely useful way of organizing plant information, and allows you to put names to more of the plants you see. This workshop is aimed at intermediate botanists who know some plants and are looking to gain a deeper understanding of the plants in the state by learning how species relate to each other. This workshop will spend time learning the common features of some of the most abundant plant families in the state and give participants the skills to field identify the family of approximately half of the species in the state. We will also spend some time working on keying and translating knowing families into learning species. This workshop will have a morning classroom portion and an afternoon field portion.

Where: Baltimore Woods Nature Center in Marcellus NY.

Cost: Workshop fee is $30 for NYFA members and students, and $50 for nonmembers.

Registration and Inquiries:  Participation is limited – please sign up early,  For questions please contact plantfamilies@nyflora.org

NYFA Cancellation Policy: The workshop fee, minus a $20 processing fee, is refundable up to four weeks prior to the start of the workshop. No refunds for cancellations within four weeks of the start of the workshop. Alternatively, the registrant may opt to apply 50% of the fee to a future NYFA workshop to be offered in the same or following year. There will be a full refund if NYFA needs to cancel the workshop.

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Limited Scholarships Are Available: For details and to apply download and submit this form.  We will process your application, and respond soon.  If approved you will be sent a code to use, when you go back and register for the trip.

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