BotanyJulia Harenčár
2016 The Garden Club of America Summer Scholarship in Field Botany
Julia Harenčár is a master's student in the Biology Department at California Polytechnic State University. Her research will study evolutionary patterns in goldfields (Lasthenia). She will collect specimens from Table Mountain in Northern California to the San Bernadino National Forest in Southern California to be deposited in the Robert F. Hoover Herbarium. She will use molecular biology techniques to determine how much, if any, hybridization is occurring between two nearly indistinguishable species of goldfields (Lasthenia californica) and (L. gracilis).
The Garden Club of America Summer Scholarship in Field Botany
To support students' field studies and offer an opportunity to gain knowledge and experience beyond the regular course of study.
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