Lincoln (Neb.)-Sept. 3, 1998-Wildflowers will be the subject of the first 1998-99 Paul A. Olson Seminar in Great Plains Studies Sept. 16 at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
James Estes, director of the NU State Museum, will present "Wildflowers of the Great Plains" from 3:30-5 p.m. in the Great Plains Art Collection Gallery on the second floor of Love Library, 13th and R streets. The lecture and a 3 p.m. reception are free and open to the public.
Flowering plants display a rainbow of colors and a diversity of ornamentation among their blossoms that reflect differences in pollinators and modes of pollination. Estes, a botanist and professor of biological sciences at NU, will review some of the brilliant-hued wildflowers of the North American grasslands as well as some flowers that have cryptic patterns, some of which are hidden to the human eye. He will discuss how floral combinations of structure, timing and color attract some floral visitors and discourage others.
Future Olson seminars are: Oct. 14, "The Great Platte River Road Archway Monument: A Panel Discussion"; Nov. 11, "Literary Practices at the Genoa Industrial Indian School (1884-1934)"; Jan. 20, "The Weather and Climate of the Great Plains-'There's No Place Like Home'"; Feb. 17, "Sandhill Cranes and Other Birds of South Central Nebraska"; March 24, "The Nebraska Sand Hills-Geology of a Desert in Disguise"; April 4-11, "The Great Plains Music and Dance Symposium"; and April 21, "Bison on the Prairies: What's Happening Now?"
The Olson seminars are sponsored by the Center for Great
Plains Studies at NU. Seminar moderators for 1998-99 are Sandra
Scofield, project director of the Nebraska Math and Science
Initiative at NU, and J. David Aiken, professor of agricultural
economics at NU.
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