💡 CE: Blue Ridge PRISM Webinar: Documenting Invasive Plants with Herbaria: A Tutorial with Dr. Andrea Weeks

Description: Join the webinar to learn how you can report your observations to the central scientific resource for county-level plant distributions, the Digital Atlas of the Virginia Flora https://vaplantatlas.org/. These maps are incorporated into the Flora of Virginia app (https://floraofvirginia.org/flora-app/) and are an ever-growing resource for understanding what plant species grow where in the Commonwealth. Because of the speed of biological invasions, creating accurate and up-to-date distribution maps for non-natives and invasives is particularly challenging.

Join the webinar to learn how you can help us fill the “gaps in the maps” with vouchered specimens and a simple reporting protocol!

Note: To be recognized by the Department of Conservation and Recreation Natural Heritage Program, all plants must be documented with one of the Commonwealth’s herbaria. In this workshop, Dr. Weeks will demonstrate how to collect and submit plant samples for documentation.

Registration: Pre-registration required. This is a free online webinar. Those who register will receive a copy of the recording.

Log your hours under Better Impact Category 2, Continuing Education.