Judith Sumner is a botanist who specializes in flowering plants and ethnobotany. She studied at the Royal Botanic Gardens (Kew) and did extensive field work in the Pacific region. Sumner has taught at the college level and at botanical gardens, including the Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University. She has been a guest on Martha Stewart Living, the PBS program Cultivating Life and the Annenberg Learner channel. Her most recent book is Plants in the Civil War: A Botanical History.

Featured title: Plants Go to War: A Botanical History of World War II

Website: https://www.judithsumner.com/

JUDITH’S EVENTS:

• Friday, Sept. 20 @ 5:30 p.m. – World War II Botany: How Plants Won the War (Book signing to follow) – South Dakota Agricultural Heritage Museum
• Friday, Sept. 20 @ 4:30 p.m. – Author Signing Event – The Oscar, Fishback Studio Theater (154), Brookings
• Saturday, Sept 21 @ 9:00 a.m. – Plants in the Civil War: A Botanical History – The Oscar, Multi-Use South (195A), Brookings
• Saturday, Sept. 21 @ 4:30 p.m. – Author Signing Event – The Oscar, Fishback Studio Theater (154), Brookings
• Sunday, Sept. 22 @ 9:30 a.m. – Pollination: Birds, Bees, Flowers, and Seeds (Book signing to follow) – McCrory Gardens Visitor Center

View the full schedule here!