Invasive Plant ID Workshop at Brown County State Park

A mid-winter invasive plant identification workshop will be offered at Brown County State Park, Feb. 18, at 10 a.m., sponsored by the Brown County Native Woodlands Project.

The workshop starts at the park's Nature Center. Participants will learn ways to positively identify non-native invasive plants that threaten the diversity of our forests, so that they can do follow-up eradication of those plants, if they choose.

More than two-dozen alien invasive plant species grow in Brown County. Some, such as English ivy, are easy to identify. Others, such as oriental bittersweet (as opposed to native bittersweet) and tree of heaven, are not. Gillian Harris, president of the South-Central chapter of the Indiana Native Plant and Wildflower Society, will lead the program, helping people identify which is which.
 
Attendees will receive the free DVD-ROM "Invasive Plants of the United States: Identification, Biology and Control," which  was produced by the USDA Forest Service.
 
Participants should bring a good magnifying lens, plant field guides and, if they have them, plant materials that they think may be invasive.
 
If you have questions, please call Julie Kempf or Dan Shaver, The Nature Conservancy, (317) 988-0246, or e-mail Ruth Ann Ingraham, rai38@sbcglobal.net.

Source: Indiana Department of Natural Resources

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