VNPS Annual Workshop March 8, 2008

Registration open!

Join us March 8 at the University of Richmond for an all day symposium on Virginia's native orchids, where our lineup of speakers will focus on orchid ecology and distribution.

Douglas Gill, professor in the Biology Department at the University of Maryland has studied a single population of pink lady slipper orchids for over 30 years, and will talk about answers to some questions about the life cycle of this orchid, and new questions that have come from his research.

Speaking about his reasearch about the fungal partners of orchids will be Dennis Whigham of the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center in Edgewater, Maryland.

Nancy Van Alstine of the Virginia Natural Heritage Program will share recent survey work looking for small whorled pogonia and Bentley's coralroot.

A noted photographer and contributor to the Flora of Virginia Project on the Orchidaceae, Hal Horwitz will take us on a photographic tour of the orchids of Virginia.

Download a PDF of the workshop brochure here:

WildOrchidBrochure.pdf