Name: Lessons in Using Rope Dodder to Control Tall/Canada Goldenrod and Sawtooth Sunflower
Start: 2025-03-01T16:15:00-0600
End: 2025-03-01T17:00:00-0600

The Wild Things Conference Returns Saturday, March 1, 2025 - SOLD OUT

We’re thrilled to welcome you again to learn and share your expertise with our community. We’ve put together an exciting lineup of workshops and sessions from regional and national experts, plus meet & greets, video content, exhibitors, and sponsors. With over 140 presentations and discussion panels to choose from, the in-person program engages a diverse range of topics, research, and skills, and plenty of opportunities to meet with friends, old and new.

Thank you as well to our sponsors, scholarship supporters, and exhibitors who are all helping to make this another tremendously successful Wild Things.

Tickets for Wild Things 2025 are sold out. For additional information on the 2025 conference, visit wildthingscommunity.org.

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Saturday March 1, 2025 4:15pm - 5:00pm CST

Room 45

Rope Dodder (Cuscuta glomerata) is a unique native vine that is completely parasitic and usually targets members of the Aster/Composite Family as a host species, especially aggressive, rhizomatous species such as Tall and Canada Goldenrods and Sawtooth Sunflower. We will look at the life cycle and growth and development of Rope Dodder and examine takeaways from the anecdotal approaches of using this native parasitic species as a biological control for aggressive goldenrods and Sawtooth Sunflower at several sites in the Barrington area over a five-year period.

Presenters

Luke Dahlberg

Conservation Seed Program Manager, Citizens for Conservation

I have roughly twenty years of native plant growing experience and studying our local ecosystems. I enjoy sharing what I have learned with others while continuing to learn more. If you want to grow native plants... results may vary! Be patient and do not give up! Let's have a conversation... Read More →

Saturday March 1, 2025 4:15pm - 5:00pm CST
Room 45

Stewardship & Ecology, Intro

Session Session Block G: 4:15 - 5 PM

Luke Dahlberg

Attendees (127)

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