Name: Plants You Can Eat, Plants You Should Avoid
Start: 2025-08-18T18:00:00-05:00
Location: 1001 Main St, Stevens Point, WI, United States, Wisconsin 54481

Plants You Can Eat, Plants You Should Avoid

The Portage County Public Library will host a talk on edible plants and other poisonous plants, led by Dr. Robert Freckmann, beginning at 6:00pm on Monday, August 18 at its Stevens Point Branch.
Dr. Freckmann, Professor Emeritus of Biology at UW-Stevens Point, will discuss edible plants found around Wisconsin and plants to avoid because of their poisons. (Please note no actual edible or poisonous plants will be on site, just pictures and a handout.) Dr. Freckmann is a highly regarded scholar in the field of botany and he is cofounder of the Robert W. Freckmann herbarium at UWSP.
This talk is free and open to the public, no registration required. Call 715-341-1548 for more information.