May Program – Invasive Plants (Green Roofs postponed)

Our scheduled monthly Audubon program for May, Green Roofs, featuring Dr. Virginia Russell, has to be postponed due to illness. We’ll try to find a new date for her in the future.

Instead, we will move up our anticipated June speaker to May. The program will still be held at 7:00 p.m. this Wednesday, May 17, at Sharon Woods Visitor Center.

Dr. Denis Conover is a biology professor at the University of Cincinnati. He will be familiar to many of you, having led many botany-focused field trips to Spring Grove Cemetery and Burnet Woods.

Denis is currently conducting a botanical survey of the Cincinnati area following up on surveys conducted by Thomas Lea in 1840 and E. Lucy Braun in 1934. One of the most striking differences between the earlier surveys and the current survey is the increase in non-native invasive plants found in the Cincinnati area. Denis will talk about some of these plants.

We will meet at 7:00 p.m. on Wednesday, May 17, at the Sharon Centre (Sharon Woods Visitors Center), which is located at 11450 Lebanon Road, Sharonville, Ohio. From the park entrance on Lebanon Road, follow the Sharon Woods Drive to the first large parking lot on the left. The visitors center is the large building at the back of the parking lot.