In person at Dewey Hall and online by Zoom

From skunk cabbage flowers with built-in furnaces to flowers that endure late snows, this talk explores how spring flowers are engineered to bloom when light still reaches the forest floor before the canopy trees leaf out. the flowers and their pollinators create shifting networks that may provide resilience against climate change and biodiversity loss.

Joan Edwards has been professor of biology at Williams College since 1979. She is a botanist with special interest in the evolution and conservation of flowers and their insect visitors. She studies flowers in their natural setting to determine how flowers are designed and to identify pollination networks, using time-lapse photography. With high-speed video, she also studies the adaptive significance of ultra-fast plant movements.

To view the lecture on Zoom, register at www.sheffieldland.org or email shefland@bcn.net

DATE: Saturday, April 12

TIME: 1:00 PM

LOCATION: Dewey Hall 91 Main St, Sheffield or Online via Zoom