The course is designed for students of all sorts, professional biologists, and amateur enthusiasts. The goals are to introduce plant diversity with a community based approach through field observations of the flora of the Blue Ridge: to emphasize basic distinguishing features among lycophytes, ferns and seed plants; to focus on field characteristics of common and rare species and their habitats; to use keys and field collections to identify species; and to better understand the ecology of the major plant communities of the region. Prerequisites: One course in introductory biology or ecology.

http://highlandsbiological.org/summer-2017/