Field Botany

Catalog description

The four-credit course will survey the flora of central New York, with excursions to various habitats including grasslands, sand dunes, peat bogs, old-growth forests, and wetlands. Plant identification and systematics will be the major focus, and students will learn how to create and curate an herbarium, compare the species composition of the various habitats, and learn human impacts and the importance of conservation of natural habitats and native species. The six hour block allows for travel and time in the field.