Fall Wildflowers of the Georgia Piedmont

Linda Chafin, botanist

Our gardens, roadsides and meadows are aglow with color in the fall. In this class, students will learn to recognize the most common fall-blooming wildflowers in the Georgia Piedmont and be introduced to basic botanical terminology for identifying and describing fall-flowering plants, with an emphasis on plants in the Aster (composite) family. We will then apply that knowledge to plants in the field, learning to recognize families, genera and species based on characteristics readily observable in the field.