North American Rock Garden Society (Piedmont Chapter) Lecture

“NARGS-Sponsored Argentine Patagonia Trip, December 2023”
Tim Alderton, Research Technician, JCRA

• Saturday, March 15, 2025 – 10:00 am–11:30 am

The northern reaches of Patagonia in western Argentina encompass an expansive area, covering landscapes of wide-open arid steppe to lush forests of Nothofagus and windswept, barren, volcanic peaks. The travels took us from southwestern most Río Negro Province north to west central Neuquén Province following the spine of the Andes. This trip highlighted the flora of this diverse region showing both familiar and exotic genera of plants and a few animals and the sometimes extreme places where they live.

Plus bonus 15-minute talk on "NARGS Extension Trip to Southern Patagonia, 2022" By Jim Jahnke, Chapel Hill, N.C.

Southern Patagonia is often viewed as a cold and windy wasteland at the end of the Americas, reached only with difficulty. It nevertheless attracts mountaineers, backpackers, botanizers, and bandits alike. Our travel to this place, as predicted, was not straightforward, but the Moreno glacier, Mount Chaltén (the smoking mountain of the Tehueleche), in addition to our finding the "virgin's slippers," the striking Calceolaria uniflora, made this extension to the Northern Patagonian trip a most memorable journey.

Cohosted by the Piedmont Chapter of the North American Rock Garden Society and the JC Raulston Arboretum.

Joining the Online Presentation

This program is being offered in person as well as online. If you want to join us online, visit the URL below to register:

https://jcra.ncsu.edu/nargs-lecture/

In case there are any last-minute changes, please check your e-mail for any updates. Last-minute changes will be sent to JCRA Cuttings subscribers and to NARGS members directly.

Video

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Cost

Free for North American Rock Garden Society (Piedmont Chapter) members and Friends of the JC Raulston Arboretum members, otherwise $5.00.

Registration

Advance registration is not available for in-person participants. Check-in is available at the door.

Registration for online participants available at https://jcra.ncsu.edu/nargs-lecture/.

Location

Online and in person at the Ruby C. McSwain Education Center, JC Raulston Arboretum at NC State University, 4415 Beryl Road, Raleigh, NC 27606.

Directions

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Parking

Free parking is available at the JC Raulston Arboretum and along Beryl Road.

Questions

Contact the JCRA Education Team at jcraprograms@ncsu.edu for more information about this program.