Out of Context: Flowers of the Aster Family

Out of Context: Flowers of the Aster Family and Their Butterfly Visitors Learn about the various ways flower heads of the Aster family can be put together. With clues, the audience will have the opportunity to guess the name of the flowers depicted. Asters provide nectar for many butterflies and for each aster flower discussed there will be beautiful photos of their butterfly visitors. Speaker Tom Halliwell is a retired chemistry and earth science teacher. He has been an avid birder and field botanist in the state for 40 years and coauthored “Birds of New Jersey”. In the last 15 years Tom has obsessed over butterflies. He is a past president of The North Jersey chapter of the North American Butterfly Association and for six years edited their annual publication, “The Pearly-Eye”. This program is eligible for 2.0 Rutgers Master Gardener CEU’s. For more information, or to register, please visit www.arboretumfriends.org, 973.326.7603.