SHSG Plant Walk July 2021: Identifying Look-Alikes
Sat, Jul 24
|Fayetteville
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Time & Location
Jul 24, 2021, 2:00 PM – 4:00 PM EDT
Fayetteville, 120 Limestone Plaza, Fayetteville, NY 13066, USA
About the Event
Can you tell the difference between these four wild & wonderful plants with heart-shaped leaves?
Have you ever been *sorta* sure what an herb is but had a hard time differentiating between members of the same family?
We get it. All mints look alike. Not just that, but poison hemlock and wild carrot appear very much the same even to a well-trained eye, and that's definitely not a mistake we'd be making twice. Every herbalist at every level of training and experience has a hard time with look-alikes. But there is hope.
Come walk with us on Sunday July 11th as we focus on skills to distinguish between similar looking plants in the wild. We will cover basic botanical concepts of plant structure, traits common within certain plant families & take an up-close look at examples on the trail for practice. And because it's Syracuse Herbal Study Group,…