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Celebrate spring with us on this joint field trip with the Native Plant
Society to Lovitt Woods for a wildflower survey. The WRC worked
with the Memphis Garden Club and the City of Germantown to protect this
once threatened, 318-acre forested tract (all of Overton Park, including
zoo, art academy, golf course, old forest is 340 acres), and we invite
you to help perform a floral inventory. Spring ephemerals that are
found in nearby tracts that we may expect to see include white trout
lily (Erthronium albidum), spring cress (Cardamine rhombaoidea), prairie
trillium (Trillium recurvatum), blue phlox (Phlox divaricata), and sweet
anise (Osmorhiza longistylis). There are also nice stands of
cypress, tupelo, and red buckeye trees (Aesculus pavia), and some
beautiful remnant wetlands on this huge Wolf River neighborhood
floodplain forest, which, thanks to you, is protected forever.
After this easy walk, we'll have lunch at a nearby restaurant. From
I-40, exit Germantown Rd., and go south approximately 5 miles.
Lowe's is on the left just before you get to the Wolf River.
Bart Jones of the TN Native Plant Society will lead the inventory.
If questions, you can reach him at 901-726-6891, cell: 901-485-2745 or
email bjones7777@hotmail.com.
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