AMWS: Late Season Grasses

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When:
August 15, 2018 @ 9:00 am – 3:30 pm
2018-08-15T09:00:00-04:00
2018-08-15T15:30:00-04:00
Where:
Tower Hill Botanic Garden
Boylston
MA
Cost:
AMWS Member $90; Non-member $150; SPECIAL OFFER: SIGN UP FOR THIS AND THE 9/14/18 WORKSHOP AND SAVE $25 TOTAL! (Members pay only $155; Non-members pay only $275)
Contact:
AMWS Administrator
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This workshop is NOW full; To be placed on our wait list please email administrator@amws.org

This workshop will focus on identifying the late season grasses that are major components of upland and wetland communities. The morning session will develop identification tools, review terminology, plant structures, keys, and the common species in each group. The afternoon field session will provide practical experience and allow participants to hone their skills with identification manuals and keys. This is a class for more advanced wetland scientists – at a minimum, you should be able to identify grasses as a family.

Lunch included. Limit 15 participants.

Prerequisites: Please bring a field guide and a good hand lens. A millimeter ruler is also useful. Some recommended field guides are: New England Wildflower Society’s Flora Novae (Angliae Haines 2011), Grasses of the Northeast (Magee 2014), Grasses (Brown 1979), and How to Identify Grasses and Grasslike Plants (Harrington 1977).

Instructor: Lisa Standley, Ph.D., Curator of Vascular Plants, New England Botanical Club, former Chief Environmental Scientist, Vanasse Hangen Brustlin (VHB). This full-day workshop is from 9:00 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Certificates of Attendance issued to all participants.