The New England Wild Flower Society has announced online classes for Fall.
The online botany classes include a field trip option. The native plants design class will be open for four months.
The Society would also like to tell you about their plant diversity class with research botanist, Arthur Haines.
Here’s the latest news at Classes Near You > Massachusetts:
New England Wild Flower Society
www.newenglandwild.org
Conserving and promoting New England’s native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes. Educators and parents may be especially interested in the Society’s Go Botany program.
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New England Plant Diversity: Session 4
Sunday, June 26, 2016
Instructor: Arthur Haines, Research Botanist
1-4 pm
Keeping up with changes in plant names can be challenging, but it reflects our expanding understanding of the plant kingdom based on genetics, a closer look at plant form, and new ways of analyzing relationships. Learn how to make sense of this new plant universe from one of the best botanists in the field, Arthur Haines. In the session 4 of this 5 session series, students will investigate advanced tricolpate families often referred to as euasterids (e.g., Lamiaceae, Plantaginaceae, Campanulaceae, Asteraceae).
Note: We recommend you take New England Plant Diversity: Session 1 first; Sessions 2-5 may be taken in any order.
Recommended text: Plant Systematics: A Phylogenetic Approach.
Course: $46 (Member) / $54 (Nonmember)
Plants 101: Introduction to the Green World
Monday, September 12, 2016 to Friday, October 14, 2016
Instructor: Dr. Elizabeth Farnsworth, Senior Research Ecologist
Explore New England’s plant life. In this online and field course you will learn what plants are, how they function, and why they are essential to all life on earth. You’ll also discover many of the region’s native and non-native plants. This course includes five self-paced online modules offered over the course of five weeks, featuring lots of interactions with the instructor and fellow students. You can elect to join an optional field trip led by an enthusiastic botanist in your state.
Field Trip Note: One field trip will be held in each New England state and participation is optional. If you would like to attend the trip as part of the course, please register for both the course and the field trip. Field trip dates and specific locations will be announced six weeks before the course launches.
Course: $100 (Member) / $125 (Nonmember)
Course + Field Trip: $128 (Member) / $160 (Nonmember)
Plants 102: Deeper into the Green World
Monday, October 17, 2016 to Friday, November 18, 2016
Instructor: Dr. Elizabeth Farnsworth, Senior Research Ecologist
Delve deeper into the New England Flora in this online and field course. Learn how plants change as they grow; how they interact with other species; and how geology, soils, land-use history, hydrology, and climate shape the plant communities of the region. You’ll adopt a plant to observe throughout the course and enjoy interacting with the course instructor and your fellow students. This course includes five weeks of online instruction. You can elect to join an optional field trip led by an enthusiastic botanist in your state. Plants 101 is a complement to Plants 102 but is not a prerequisite.
Field Trip Note: One field trip will be held in each New England state and participation is optional. If you would like to attend the trip as part of the course, please register for both the course and the field trip. Field trip dates and specific locations will be announced six weeks before the course launches.
Course: $100 (Member) / $125 (Nonmember)
Course + Field Trip: $128 (Member) / $160 (Nonmember)
Designing with Native Plants
Open Enrollment (November 14, 2016 through April 2, 2017)
Instructor: Dr. Elizabeth Farnsworth, Senior Research Ecologist
This entirely self-paced online course will teach you the basics of designing with native plants and show you how to incorporate native plants into your garden and landscape. Discover the variety of native plants found throughout New England and learn how to design a visually interesting landscape that also supports biodiversity. Students complete the course at their own pace.
Fee: $64 (Member) / $80 (Nonmember)
Limit: Unlimited
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