Celebrating Native Habitats of the Piedmont

A Day with Tim Spira

Tuesday, October 4, 2011

Free and open to the public.

Book signings after 12:30 and 5:00 events.

12:30 p.m. - Exploring Native Plant Communities, Reynolda Gardens Education Wing
Tim Spira will introduce you to a new way of looking at native plants by emphasizing their relationships with each other, showing us how to see plants as unique botanical communities, including the key factors that determine their distribution across the landscape.

3:30 – 4:30 - Guided Plant Walk, Emily Allen Wildflower Preserve
Tim Spira will lead a walk through a woodland garden that harbors a rich diversity of native wildflowers. By going a “step beyond identification,” participants will learn to look at plants and natural habitats in a new way. Call PLC at (336)691-0088 to make a reservation. Space limited.

5:00 – 6:00 - Wildflowers and Plant Communities in Piedmont NC, Historic Bethabara Park Visitor Center
Tim Spira will provide an overview of the key characteristics of selected native plant communities in the Piedmont landscape. For each community presented, he will highlight features of selected wildflowers, including some rare and unusual ones.

Tim Spira, Ph.D., a plant ecologist and professor of botany at Clemson University, teaches field botany, plant ecology, and the natural history of wildflowers. Author of the recently published book, Wildflowers and Plant Communities of the Southern Appalachian Mountains and Piedmont: A Naturalist's Guide to the Carolinas, Virginia, Tennessee, and Georgia (UNC Press).

Sponsored by Reynolda Gardens of Wake Forest University, Piedmont Land Conservancy, and Historic Bethabara Park, with the support of the Wake Forest University Center for Energy, Environment, and Sustainability