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Inscrutable Graminoids: Field Identification of Late-season Coastal & Tidal Grass-like Plants
An Aton Forest workshop led by Bill Moorhead

 Date and time: Tuesday, September 27, 2016, 9:00AM – 3:00PM

Meeting and ending location: Saybrook Point Pavillion
155 College Street, Old Saybrook, CT.

This plant identification workshop focuses on field identification and ecology of important grasses, sedges, and rushes (collectively, “graminoids”, or grass-like plants) that are commonly encountered in Connecticut coastal and tidal areas during early fall.  We will cover estuarine tidal, saltmarsh, and near coastal uplands. We will cover the basic features that distinguish the major graminoid groups, the terminology used in graminoid identification, distinguishing invasive and other non-native species from native species, wetland indicator values and other ecological affinities of various species.

Tuition: $75.  Registration and payment required in advance. Enrollment will be on a first-come-first-served basis, and is limited to 15 participants. Any advanced payments will be refunded in full if the workshop is cancelled by us, for any reason.

Things you will need to bring: a brown bag lunch and choice of drink if other than water (Aton will supply bottled water); a good quality hand lens/loupe with at least 10X magnification; a field notebook and writing implement[s]; a cm-mm ruler; knife or scissors for cutting specimens; bags for collecting specimens; choice of sun and insect/tick protection; appropriate footwear for both upland and ankle-deep wetland sites; raingear (the workshop runs rain or shine).


For more information, contact Bill Moorhead (860-543-1786, whmoorhead@optonline.net) or John Anderson, Executive Director, Aton Forest, Inc. (office phone: 860-542-5125; email:contact@atonforest.org).