[BSW] Botanical Mèlange

[KATHY BILTON]

The next BSW meeting will be at 7pm on Tuesday, September 7. As has been 
the custom in September, it will be Members' Night. So start thinking now 
if you have a short topic (5-10 minutes) you would like to present.
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Tuesday, July 27 at 7:30pm MNPS Monthly Program
National Park Forests in the Eastern US: Ecological Value and Natural 
Resource Challenges
Speaker: Dr. Liz Matthews, Ecologist, National Park Service Inventory and 
Monitoring Program
Register here: https://mdflora.org/event-4349614
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Thursday, July 29 at 7:30pm
Where have all the mammals gone? with Joel Cohen
Organized By: MD Natural Places Committee
https://act.sierraclub.org/events/details?formcampaignid=7013q000002FBKAAA4
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Saturday and Sunday, September 25-26 - MNPS Annual Conference
Rare Plants and Communities of the Baltimore-Washington Corridor 
https://mdflora.org/event-4357179
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Rare wild orchids stolen from Draycote Meadows
https://www.stratford-herald.com/news/rare-wild-orchids-stolen-9202205/
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The Truth Behind the Amazon Mystery Seeds
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2021/07/unsolicited-seeds-china-brushing/619417/
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MNPS Program: Human Impacts On Native Plants & Insects:
Restoring Biodiversity with Dr. Sara Via from 06/29/2021 is available at
https://youtu.be/x4PdgS_yzw4
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New insight on the reproductive evolution of land plants
https://phys.org/news/2021-07-insight-reproductive-evolution.html
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Engineered plants' roots turn red when helpful fungi show up
https://newatlas.com/science/genetically-engineered-plants-red-roots-fungi/
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Plant poachers threaten California’s biodiversity
https://calmatters.org/commentary/2021/07/plant-poachers-threaten-californias-biodiversity/
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Here's a picture of a Goldenseal plant with a fruit taken on the Antietam 
Battlefield a couple of days ago. I mentioned it to a friend in Richmond 
who was surprised I had seen it given its known locations in Virginia 
which show it from none of the northern counties.
Pic of plant: 
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Sznu7de2Dw6S7hoKqoBzgsbcLf4-abTt/view?usp=sharing
Map in Virginia Atlas: 
http://www.vaplantatlas.org/index.php?do=plant&plant=2856&search=Search
Map from Plants.USDA: 
https://plants.usda.gov/home/plantProfile?symbol=HYCA