If our May feature on culinary uses of flowers piqued your interest in that subject, the Missouri Botanical Garden’s Shaw Nature Reserve is offering a class just for you during the next few months: Wildflower ID and Ecology.
Designed for beginners and more experienced amateur naturalists alike, the class “will focus on identification, relationships and habitats of wildflowers of the season,” in wooded, prairie and wetland areas. Its first session runs from 5 to 7:30 p.m. tomorrow, with subsequent sessions scheduled for June 19, July 24 and Aug. 21. The class costs $18 for MoBot members and $21 for nonmembers and also requires advance registration. And who knows? Perhaps participants will spot some of the wild edibles showcased in our April cover story.
The Shaw Nature Reserve lies roughly an hour’s drive southwest of St. Louis in Gray Summit, Mo. For more information on the reserve and this class, visit its Web site or phone 636.451.3512.
This article appears in May 1-31, 2010.