BotanyMary Seward
2015 The Garden Club of America Summer Scholarship in Field Botany
Mary Seward is in her first year of graduate studies at The College of William and Mary. Her Master’s thesis project is a study on the ecology of the clonal plant common milkweed (Asclepias syriaca). Her research goals are to determine how common milkweed might share resources between clones and how such sharing could affect the way common milkweed grows in the wild. She hopes that this information will help the restoration projects underway that are re-establishing common milkweed patches for the monarch butterflies, which rely on this plant for much of their life cycle.
Funded by Guilford Garden Club, (MD) Zone VI
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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