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Houston NPSOT Field Trip: Green Star Wetland Plant Farm
April 12 @ 9:00 am - 12:00 pm
Date and Time: April 12, 2025 at 9:00am
Meeting Location: In Google Maps- Green Star Wetland Plant Farm- Address 4646 County Road 181, Alvin, TX 77511
Field Trip Overview: Mary Carol Edwards, owner, has graciously offered us to come visit Green Star Wetland Plant Farm. It will allow us to become more intimate with large scale plant grows from deciding which species to select for cultivation, propagation, and grow out. It will allow participants access to thinking about how wetland plants are used throughout the Houston area for maintaining natural communities, providing water filtration and chemical sequestration, and types of projects currently being implemented around the region. From a plant identification perspective, the farm typically has around 90 species in cultivation so we will have time to talk through plant morphology with an emphasis on adaptations plants utilize to grow in prolonged saturated or inundated environments. Additionally, we will have the opportunity to view ongoing prairie restoration on six acres adjacent to the nursery and view several old live oak mottes.
Additional Site Information: https://greenstarwetlands.com/
VMS: AT: Single Presentation (CPC- Field Trip: Green Star Wetland Plant Farm)