{"id":1404,"date":"2020-04-19T01:48:51","date_gmt":"2020-04-19T01:48:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/aaron-kampe\/?page_id=1404"},"modified":"2020-05-08T00:23:55","modified_gmt":"2020-05-08T00:23:55","slug":"field-botany","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/aaron-kampe\/field-botany\/","title":{"rendered":"Field Botany"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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I am not a botanist. I am merely a passionate plantsman who has the privilege of teaching field botany. I follow in the footsteps of local legends like Larry Mellichamp<\/a> and Paula Gross<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gone are the days of only using Vascular Flora of the Carolinas – though its use was my rite of passage and is still a mainstay. Gone are the days of climax communities – the ever changing world and climate change make it impossible to perhaps reach such a thing. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here are the days of thinking about Plant Communities<\/a> and how families fit within them. Here are the days of iNaturalist. <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I am a lifelong gardener and use my garden to demonstrate the interrelatedness of plant familes, flowers, and fruit. <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you’re looking for common native woodland flowers<\/a>, ferns<\/a>, or pines<\/a> of the Southeast I’ve made videos on each of them. In fact there’s even more on my YouTube page<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I’ve also enlisted the help of exceptionally artistic students to develop mnemonic<\/strong> devices that are specific to plant families. Reach out to me if you’d like a copy of my presentation with plant families well-represented in the Southeast. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Ana the Rana – our character representative of the Ranunculaceae. She has veins (palmate venation), a hood and spurs in her eyes (like petals in this family), and numerous spiral stamens on top of her head. <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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This is Fabe the Babe, our character for the Fabaceae. She’s a bean (legume), has wings, a keeled boat in the background, and a banner (all petal parts in this family). <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

In a separate but related agroecology project, I’ve recently received funding from the Charlotte Green Initiative to install a food forest exhibit in front of the Mellichamp Native Gardens! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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