NATH7120, 3.0 CEU 
Class night and time: Tuesdays, 6-8 pm   
Class meetings: March 21-May 23
Field trip dates: Saturday, April 1 (10 am-1 pm): Patuxent River Park – Jug Bay Natural Area; Saturday, April 15 (10 am-1 pm): Woodend Nature Sanctuary; Saturday, April 29 (9 am-12 pm): Thompson Wildlife Management; Saturday, May 13 (10 am-1 pm): Buck Lodge Community Park
Location: Online via zoom
Online lectures + 4 field trips: members $380, nonmembers $430   
Instructor: Bradley Simpson
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. Registration closes March 15. REGISTER.

Required Books and Materials (available at 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
Suggested books and materials
Tree Finder by May Theilgaard Watts and Common Native Trees of VA by VA Department of Forestry