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WONC Winter Speaker Series: Mosses for Beginners (+ Informal Seed Share)

Sunday, January 3rd, 2027
to (Eastern Time)
Brookside Gardens, 1800 Glenallan Ave, Wheaton-Glenmont, MD, 20902 Map

Public Welcome Registration Required Free Event Program/Speaker Presentation Seed/Plant Share Wheelchair Accessible Public Restroom Free Public Parking Drinking Fountains

MOSSES FOR BEGINNERS
Linda and Charlie Davis  - National Historical Society of Maryland

If mosses intrigue you when you hike and you’d like to know more about them, this is your chance. Using specimens, slides, dramatization, models, and microscope work, Linda and Charlie Davis will introduce participants to moss anatomy, life cycle, ecology, human use, and gardening. The walk to your mailbox will never be the same.

Charlie and Linda Davis have inventoried mosses and liverworts for the National Park Service at Great Falls Park, Virginia, and at Piscataway Park and Fort Washington Park in Maryland. Charlie is a professional field ecologist who specializes in plants. Linda and Charlie offered monthly moss identification workshops for years at the Natural History Society of Maryland in Overlea, MD (www.marylandnature.org).

AGENDA

12:00 -12:30pm  - Registration/Socializing/Informal Seed Share*
12:30 -  2:00pm  - Guest Speaker
   2:00 -  2:30pm -  Socializing/Clean-up/Informal Seed Share*

*Before/after the event there will be a table set up to share native plant seeds. Please bring seeds or winter sowing containers (especially translucent plastic 1 gallon milk/water jugs) to share if you have them. You are welcome to take seeds regardless of if you have any to share.

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