The Pacolet Area Conservancy and Walnut Creek Preserve invite everyone to an informational presentation about the “Flora and Landscapes of the Southern Mountain Region” on Saturday, June 16 at 10 a.m., to be held at the Anne Elizabeth Suratt Nature Center at Walnut Creek Preserve. This presentation was originally set for March 24 but was canceled because of an illness in the presenter’s family.
Botanist David Campbell, of the UNCC Herbarium, will present a digital slide show of the flora and landscapes of the southern mountain region, including a few shots of fauna of the region.
Campbell said he is interested in studying the flora in Polk County and hopes to gather data and create herbarium specimens for the UNCC Herbarium. Polk County is poorly represented in the state herbarium, he said; no new data for the county has been added in nearly 50 years. During his quest, he hopes to relocate several rare plants of historic importance that have been documented in the area.