Educational Speaker: Linda Chafin

Topic: “Fall Native Plants of Georgia”

November 12 @ 2:00pm – 4:00pm

• Sunday, November 12
• 2:00-4:00pm
• Free, but registration required as space is limited
• Location based on weather; either in the Pavilion or upstairs Overlook Room
• We suggest reserving your spot early. Space is limited so everyone must RSVP here.
• Parking Off Site required and more details here

Join us for this special speaker event as Linda Chafin, Conservation Botanist at Georgia Botanical Garden & revered author, leads a talk entitled: “Fall Native Plants of Georgia”. Linda is one of our state’s experts on native plants and their ecological communities. She has published three field guides to native plants: “The Field Guide to Rare Plants of Georgia”, The Field Guide to the Wildflowers of Georgia and Surrounding States”, and “The Field Guide to the Rare Plants of Florida”.

Event details:

Fall is a glorious time to look for wildflowers of the Piedmont and Mountains of North Georgia in clearings, both natural and human-made: temperatures are cooler and wildflowers are big and showy. Linda will talk about the most common fall-blooming wildflowers and offer some basic identification tips.

Bio:

Linda Chafin is the Conservation Botanist with the Science and Conservation Program at the State Botanical Garden of Georgia, in Athens. At the Garden, she teaches botany classes, leads field trips, conducts plant and natural community inventories, and writes articles and books about Georgia’s native plants. She works with the Botanical Garden’s “Certificate in Native Plants” program and with the Botanical Guardian Volunteers. Linda is also an active board member of the Georgia Botanical Society.

Linda received a Master’s Degree in Botany from UGA in 1988, where she studied under Dr. Sam Jones, and has conducted rare species surveys and natural community inventories throughout the southeastern U.S

Linda grew up in southwest Atlanta, and learned to love plants and the outdoors from camping with her family around the country, and from her mother, aunt, and grandmother, who were all avid gardeners.

The University of Georgia Press published her books, “The Field Guide to the Rare Plants of Georgia” in 2007 and “The Field Guide to the Wildflowers of Georgia and Surrounding States” in 2016.  As Senior Botanist for the Florida Natural Areas Inventory, Linda also wrote “The Field Guide to the Rare Plants of Florida,” which was published in 2001.