The Desert Botanical Garden is restarting their Budding Botanist program to provide a crash course into botany and teach people how to ID plants and collect field specimens. They have partnered with AZNPS to provide training for members. The goal is to create a flora of Papago Park as part of The Plant Atlas Project of Arizona (PAPAZ). More info on PAPAZ can be seen on our website. Attendees will learn how plants function, how to ID plants, how to collect plants in the field and how plants are entered into herbarium. It is a 2.5 day botany bootcamp including classroom and field experience!
Dates: November 15th 8:30AM – 11:30AM
Today is the field day where we will meet at Papago park and collect samples in the field, ID them to species, and press them in a field press.
The entire course is $25 and is run through the Desert Botanical Garden. You can register here: https://ticketing.dbg.org/events/cb78cefb-45c1-d708-48bb-0eaace5bf725
Please contact Mary Chisholm mchisholm@dbg.org if you have questions.
