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Learn and Grow: The Curious Case of the Calcareous Ravine
May 18, 2019 @ 10:00 am - 11:30 am
Tucked-away in the woodland section of the Williamsburg Botanical Garden is a small, rock-walled model of a ravine that showcases a specific kind of flora and habitat that occur naturally right here in Williamsburg and James City County, though few ever see it.
Learn about the plants such as miterwort, dog violet, zig-zag goldenrod, interrupted fern, and umbrella magnolia. These plants grow in the mountains and western Piedmont, skip the eastern Piedmont, and then reappear in certain deep, moist calcareous ravines in the coastal plain.
Today’s speaker is Donna M.E. Ware, noted author and former curator of the William & Mary Herbarium, and founding member of both the Williamsburg Botanical Garden and the John Clayton Chapter of the Virginia Native Plant Society.
Free. Registration required.
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