AMWS: Late Season Sedges

Calendar
When:
September 14, 2018 @ 9:00 am โ€“ 3:30 pm
2018-09-14T09:00:00-04:00
2018-09-14T15:30:00-04:00
Where:
Tower Hill Botanic Garden
Boylston
MA
Cost:
AMWS Member $90; Non-member $150; SPECIAL OFFER: SIGN UP FOR THIS AND THE 8/15/18 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 sedges that are occur in wetland communities โ€“ Scirpus, Cyperus, Eleocharis, and others. 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 โ€“ at a minimum, you should be able to identify sedges 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 Societyโ€™s Flora Novae (Angliae Haines 2011), Sedges of Maine (Arsenault et al 2013), 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.