Botany Basics - Part One of a Botanical Series

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The world of plants surrounds us, providing us with food to eat, materials to provide us shelter and air to breathe. All creatures depend upon plant life. We take it for granted at our own peril. In order to protect and sustain this life-giving organism, we need to understand it. To understand it, we need to study it, feel it in our hands, smell it, turn it over, marvel at its complexity and beauty.

In this series, you will be offered a rapid overview of the structure of plants in a one-hour online tutorial. A week later, you will have the option to venture into the field to learn the basics of botanical illustration, a key tool to learning about a plant through careful observation and drawing

Speaker:
Wendy St. John is an ecologist, teaching in both the Biology, and Geography, Environment and Planning departments at Sonoma State University. She is currently teaching Restoration Ecology. After deeply studying botanical illustration, she is eager to share this life skill with us all.


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