Dr Gerry Moore, Director of Science/BBG Symposium: What is Local? Genetics & Plant Selection in the Urban Context. (Tuesday, May 23, 2006, American Museum of Natural History)

1. Setting the Table: The Changing Flora of the New York Metropolitan Region Gerry Moore

3. The New York Metropolitan Flora Project (NYMF)

4. NYMF Region

8. seabeach amaranth (Amaranthus pumilus)

11. Gardeners’ Resource Center Science Library Rare Book Room

14. False heather (Hudsonia ericoides)

15. Chokecherry (Prunus virginiana)

16. Multiflora rose (Rosa multiflora)

17. Bog rosemary (Andromeda glaucophylla)

22. Native vs. Alien

24. Highbush blueberry (Vaccinium corymbosum)

25. Oriental bittersweet ( Celastrus orbiculata )

26. American Bittersweet ( Celastrus scandens)

27. Aralia

28. Aralia

29. Aralia spinosa /// Aralia elata 

30. Phragmites Image source: www.nps.gov P. australis subsp. americanus

31. Rise of the South? Curtiss’s milkwort Polygala curtissii Camphorweed Heterotheca subaxillaris Inflated bladderwort Utricularia inflata

33. American Chestnut (Castanea dentata)

34. White-tailed Deer

36. Spotted Wintergreen ( Chimaphila maculata)

37. Pipsissewa (Chimaphila umbellata)

38. Gentiana autumnalis Fire Suppression Method for smoke infusion for seeds

40. Habitat Destruction/Fragmentation

42. Soil Alterations Japanese barberry (Berberis thunbergii) stiltgrass (Microstegium vimineum)

43. Climate Change/Sea Level Rise

44. Restoration

45. What is Local?

46. BBG