[BSW] "American Wildflowers" this Friday + Other upcoming events

[KATHY BILTON]

Rob Soreng sent news of an event this Friday at the Klein Theatre:

    Friday, November 18 at 7:30 pm - Shakespeare Theatre Company presents
    "American Wildflowers" at the Klein Theatre
    https://shakespearetheatre.org/events/american-wildflowers/

    This is a special event produced by the Oak Spring Garden Foundation 
and is based on a newly published anthology, American Wildflowers: A 
Literary Field Guide.

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Tuesday, December 6 - Outgoing President, Marcos Caraballo, will be 
delivering his Presidential Address at our holiday gathering and last 
meeting of 2022.

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Recording of our most recent (November 1) meeting, at which Mr. N.S. 
Prasanna and Ms. Rhuthuparna S B, Ph.D. students at Dr. Vinita Gowda’s 
Tropical Ecology and Evolution (TrEE) Lab at the Indian Institute of 
Science Education and Research, Bhopal, spoke on the topic:

A Glimpse into the Ecology and Evolution of Gesneriaceae in India

https://us02web.zoom.us/rec/share/-yJfaqV4cYKCJJXvoJtlxj_lfuxNrRdrmsGh4y9wMihPn3N3tumSW4UO3c3HijE.SgkGvtERTGkJ3sdv
Passcode: f%R at i2ap

(Unfortunately the recording doesn't start until about 10 minutes into the 
presentation.)

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Tuesday, November 29 7:00 PM 
MNPS Monthly Program: Biological control of invasive weeds
Register for the Zoom here: http://www.mdflora.org/event-5025208

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Tuesday, January 3 at 7pm

Speaker for our meeting wuill be:
Dr. Marc Appelhans, herbarium curator and researcher at the University of 
Göttingen

His subject matter will focus on recent systematic research on the 
Rutaceae including several of its North American representatives. 

Note: I recently discovered a couple of little Common Hoptrees (Ptelea 
trifoliata), members of the Rutaceae, growing at the Rumsey Monument Park 
in Shepherdstown. They look to be several years old but have been hacked 
down and are regrowing.  They are in an area rife with invasive Gold Rain 
Trees and Ailanthus. Everything beyond the wall along the cliffside above 
the Potomac River has been cut down in recent years. 
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1BQen74TjJjb3XfsHwhOcpWZv3U22X8uS/view?usp=share_link 
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1uapdlaAR_x3UNkeH9RLCFV8v-0UwlUWL/view?usp=share_link

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Kentucky Grown Chia Seeds
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bsBvq6GoPoI

The company, Heartland Chia of Franklin, KY, was honored this September 16 
as Senate Small Business of the Week:
https://www.paul.senate.gov/news/dr-rand-paul-honors-heartland-chia-franklin-senate-small-business-week

Regarding Chia: Because of our late frost this year, I had a volunteer 
chia plant (Salvia hispanica) bloom in recent days, the first time I've 
had this happen since 2017, the year I learned what the mystery plants 
were that had been growing in spots around my yard all summer.