Date: May 14, 2024

Time: 6:00 p.m.

Location: Landrum Library

Speakers: Ashley Morris, Professor and Curator of the Herbarium in the Department of Biology at Furman University

Bunched Arrowhead (Sagittaria fasciculata), is found only in small isolated pockets in Henderson County, North Carolina and Greenville County, South Carolina. The seepage habitat in which it grows is extremely threatened. The remaining populations of this plant and the places where it grows are vulnerable to residential and industrial development, conversion of land to pasture, and non-native and invasive species. Join us to learn about the approach that the lab at Furman University has taken to understand the relative importance of sexual reproduction and asexual reproduction in the federally endangered plant, Bunched Arrowhead, and the implications that research findings have for species recovery.

Ashley is the Professor and Curator of the Herbarium in the Department of Biology at Furman University. She has been at the University since 2019, after moving from Middle Tennessee. She’s been working on rare plant population genetics for over 20 years and teaches courses in Economic Botany, Field Botany, Forest Ecology, Population Genetics & Evolution, and Ecology and Natural Resources Management of the Smokies.

The Landrum Library Speaker Series programs are made possible thanks to our partnership with the Spartanburg County Public Libraries.

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