VNPS Annual Workshop

Virginia Native Plant Society 2007 WORKSHOP

DISCOVERING VIRGINIA 1607-2007: Bushwackers, Botanists and Pioneers

Saturday, March 3, 2007
9:30 a.m. until 3:30 p.m.
University of Richmond, Gottwald Center for the Sciences

Inspired by the quadricentennial of the Jamestown settlement, this workshop looks back at 400 years of botanical exploration, cultivation and colonization in our state. Considered by many to be the birthplace of botanical study in the New World, Virginia has a long and fascinating history of pioneers and explorers who have made significant contributions to science and to our cultural heritage. In the 18th century, for example, pioneers who pushed through the boundaries of the Blue Ridge Mountains created an entirely new cultural and agrarian landscape in the Shenandoah Valley. On a broader scale, early botanists like John Clayton laid the foundation for plant exploration that can be traced from the publishing of Flora Virginica in 1743 up to present day efforts to produce a new Flora of Virginia. Join us as we celebrate some of the remarkable people who have contributed so much to our present day botanical knowledge and to Virginia’s history.

As an added attraction, workshop participants are invited to a special viewing of
“Native Plants of Virginia: Selections from the University of Richmond Herbarium” on exhibit in the Lora Robins Gallery of Design from Nature. This exhibit links line drawings by Lara Gastinger with herbarium specimens and botanical photographs.

VNPS thanks the Department of Biology, University of Richmond for hosting this event.

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