Details

BLENDED | Eight Sessions: ONLINE, Tuesdays & Thursdays, March 21 - April 11, 1 - 2:30 p.m. & ONSITE (Optional), Thursday, April 13, 1 - 2:30 p.m.

Instructor: Alexandra Holland

$180 Non-member Adult**

(**Arboretum Members receive a 10% discount on all classes.)

Course Capacity: 50

BREG Core | BRN Core

Plants have many amazing abilities: they make their own food, pull water hundreds of feet in the air against gravity, and trick insects and other animals into helping them reproduce. They track the sun, recoil at a touch, and warn other plants of danger. In this class we will explore all these phenomena and more as we look at the basics of plant structure, function, evolution, classification, and ecology. The class is a Zoom-based lecture format. Discussion questions and practical exercises will be provided to reinforce the lecture material, including making observations in your own yard or neighborhood. Participants are encouraged to sign up for the complementary Botany Basics Walks for further reinforcement of the lecture material, but the walks are not a requirement.

Alexandra Holland graduated from Duke University and earned her Master's degree in botany from the University of Texas at Austin. She was in the first class of students to be certified as Blue Ridge Naturalists. Alexandra managed the UTEX Culture Collection of Algae at UT Austin and spent many hours working with education programs at the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center. She has taught botany for over a decade and leads nature hikes in Western North Carolina for groups of all ages.

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