April 2021
Dr. Andrew Hipp, Senior Scientist in Plant Systematics and Herbarium Director at the Morton Arboretum, will introduce us to the numerous native sedges of the Chicago Region. He will cover their taxonomic and ecological context, including photos of the plants and the habitats where they live, in a “sedge nerdy but understandable way.”
Andrew Hipp conducts research on the origins and implications of plant biodiversity. His current work focuses on oaks, sedges, woody plant diversity, and interactions between diversity of plant lineages and biodiversity of plant communities. You can read about his research at http://systematics.mortonarb.org/ and follow his natural history blog (which includes plenty of sedges) at http://botanistsfieldnotes.com/.