Introduction to Botany
NATH7120E, 3.0 CEUs
Class night and time: Wednesdays, 6-8 pm
Class meetings: March 26-May 28
Lectures via Zoom
Field trip dates: Saturday, April 12 (10 am-1 pm) Patuxent River Park – Jug Bay Natural Area; Saturday, April 26 (10 am-1 pm) Trillium Trail Loop – Thompson Wildlife Management Area; Saturday, May 10 (10 am-1 pm) Woodend Nature Sanctuary; Saturday, May 24 (10 am-1 pm) Buck Lodge Community Park
Instructor: Bradley Simpson
Members $420, nonmembers $470
Learn the basics of botany by exploring the evolution of plants through taxonomy. From club mosses to ferns to conifers and flowering plants, students will explore the various characteristics that define each group as unique. Our hands-on field trips will give you the opportunity to experience all these plants live and investigate their features further by seeing trailing lycopods, the unfurling of polypodiopsida, the cones of gymnosperms, the flowers of monocots, and the leaf veins of eudicots. REGISTER

Required books and materials (available from the Woodend Nature Shop):

* Botany for Gardeners, 3rd Edition by Brian Capon
* Plant Identification Terminology: An Illustrated Glossary by James G. Harris and Melinda Woolf Harris
* Newcomb’s Wildflower Guide by Lawrence Newcomb
* Hand lens

Recommended: 

* Tree Finder by May Theilgaard Watts and Common Native Trees of VA by VA Department of Forestry