Monday, March 11 7:30 p.m.
“Weeds in the Wildlands”
Guest speaker: Eva Buxton
Eva Buxton grew up in Sweden and was introduced to plants by her mother at an early age. When she was 11, her biology teacher required a herbarium collection of 50 plants, correctly identified with common and scientific names, habitat, and date of collection to be made over the summer vacation. Ever since that time (early 1950s), she has been interested in plants. She found it disconcerting, however, upon arrival in this country, that many of the plants dear to her heart in Sweden were considered “nasty weeds”! We, of course, know them as introduced plants, some of them weedy.