Source: NCSU COLLEGE OF AG & LIFE SCIENCES, 10/29/21


As a child in Pennsylvania, Dennis Werner would walk in the woods with a plant identification book and his curiosity in hand. Though many trees in the forest towered over him, the redbud caught his attention. Its buds happened to bloom right at Werner’s eye level, allowing him to peer closely and examine it.  “I didn’t know anything about taxonomy or how plants were classified, but I’d find a leaf on a tree and I’d start paging through my book just to try to match it up,” Werner said. “And that’s how I learned about trees.”

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