Honors & Awards

From Plant Press, Vol. 21, No. 2, April 2018.

Spermacoce latifolia. A. Plants growing in Jumping Gully Conservation Area, Pasco County, Florida. B. Detail of distal nodes with flower in anthesis. (photos by Alan Franck; image from Castanea)

Research Associates Joseph H. Kirkbride, Jr. and John Wiersema and co-authors Piero Delprete (Institut de Recherche pour le Développement) and Alan Franck (University of South Florida) have been awarded the 2017 Richard and Minnie Windler Award for Systematics from the Southern Appalachian Botanical Society. They received the award for their published article “A new weed in Florida, Spermacoce latifolia, and the distinction between S. alata and S. latifolia (Spermacoceae, Rubiaceae)” in the journal Castanea (82: 114-131; 2017).

Graduate student Peter Schafran received funding from the Washington Biologists’ Field Club to collect members of the Isoetes riparia complex from the upper Potomac and Delmarva Peninsula.