[BSW] April 5 meeting + Rare Plant + Field trips

[Kathy Bilton]

In case you missed this story:
Rare Plant Rediscovered in Maryland after 112 Years
http://news.maryland.gov/dnr/2016/03/07/rare-plant-rediscovered-in-maryland-after-112-years/

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Green Spring Gardens Master Plan Revision
http://www.fairfaxcounty.gov/parks/plandev/green-spring-gardens.htm

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April 2 and 9 Field Trips

We will be having two field trips in April - Saturday the 2nd and two
weeks later on the 16th - to a location along the Potomac that we've been
going to for a decade or more.

Meet at 9:00 a.m. at the parking area across from Old Angler's Inn.

Further information, including a map to the meeting point as well as a
plant list and key, may be found on this page:
http://botsoc.org/bswfieldtrips.html

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Next Meeting: Tuesday, April 5 at 7 PM

Speaker: Chris Ludwig, Chief Biologist of the Virginia Natural Heritage
Program

Topic: Shale Barren Rock Cress

Location: VZ Conference Room (WG 33)
Ground Floor of the West Wing, National Museum of Natural History,
Smithsonian Institution, 10th St. and Constitution Avenue NW, Washington,
DC.

Flyer now available for posting: http://botsoc.org/apr16.pdf

Please email Paul Peterson at the address peterson at si.edu to arrange 
for a pass to get to the meeting room if you don't usually attend..

Pre-meeting dinner: 5:30 P.M. at the Elephant & Castle Pub and Restaurant,
1201 Pennsylvania Ave., N.W., Washington. Phone 202-347-7707. The
restaurant is diagonally across from the Old Post Office Pavilion at 12th
and Pennsylvania, a few blocks from the Museum, with Federal Triangle the
nearest Metro station, and Metro Center also nearby.