Native Seed Identification: North American Plants

This three-class live series teaches participants how to identify seeds from plant species native to North America using visible traits, comparison methods, and a large seed reference collection. Each class focuses on a major native plant group and its subgroups, building from a shared identification workflow to group-specific diagnostic features. Learners practice observing seed size, shape, surface texture, color, hilum, wing structures, and fruit remnants, then use those observations to make and document reasoned preliminary identifications of unknown samples.