State Botanist Featured Speaker for May Nature @ Noontime Program

NASHVILLE --- Tennessee’s state botanist, Todd Crabtree, will be the featured speaker at the Tennessee Wildlife Agency’s Nature @ Noontime May presentation from 12-1 p.m. on Thursday, May 6. The monthly program is held at the TWRA Region II conference room and is located in the Ellington Agricultural Center.

 

Crabtree will discuss and have a photographic display on rare plants from the Mississippi River to Appalachian Mountains, showing glimpses of the state’s varies landscape where rare plants can be found.

 

Plants will be shown ranging from exotic-looking rare orchids to the more humble and obscure, some of which occur nowhere else in the world. Tennessee has a number of these endemic plants that are naturally limited to a small geographic area and found only in Tennessee. Rare plants can have both state and/or federal protection status.

 

Hosted by TWRA’s I&E Division and held on the first Thursday of each month, except July. The Nature @ Noontime presentations are about natural resource related topics and last about 30-45 minutes, allowing time for discussion during the allotted lunch hour.

 

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