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The Canadian Botanical Association Bulletin Bulletin de l'Association Botanique du Canada Fall colours at the Queen’s University Biological Station on Lake Opinicon, ©Greg Bulte. See article on page 63 Highlights in this issue: Major Invasive Plants: Fall Colours Top Ornamental Plants: Eurasian Water Milfoil Impatiens page 63 page 52 page 67 IN THIS ISSUE: President’s Message 36 2017 CBA Conference 37 2016/17 CBA Board of Directors and Section Chairs 38 Announcements 40 Teaching Section News 41 Mycology Section News 41 Reflections on CBA-ABC 2016, Victoria BC 42 2016 CBA Awards 45 Regional Award Winners recognized by CBA-ABC in 2016 49 Laurie Consaul Northern Research Scholarship Report: My journey to the North 51 Major Invasive Alien Plants of Natural Habitats in Canada 52 The Annual Show of Tree Leaf Colour 63 Top Canadian Ornamental Plants. 14. Impatiens 67 Diane Davis, CBA President Art Davis, and Christine Maxwell ©Hugues Massicotte 34 49(2) CBA/ABC Bulletin CBA members Olivera Gavric, Jarnail Chandi, Jason Wong, and Santokh Singh, celebrating “Fascination of Plants Day”, May 18, 2016 at UBC. Host your own event in 2017 - for more details see fascinationofplantsday.org The Canadian Botanical Association Bulletin Bulletin de l’Association Botanique du Canada The CBA Bulletin is issued three times a year (March, Septem- Le Bulletin de I’ABC paraît trois fois par année, normalement en ber and December) and is freely available on the CBA website. mars, septembre et décembre. Il est envoyé à tous les membres Hardcopy subscriptions are available for a fee. de I’ABC. INFORMATION FOR CONTRIBUTORS SOUMISSION DE TEXTES All members are welcome to submit texts in the form of papers, re- Tous les membres de I’Association sont invités à envoyer des views, comments, essays, requests, or anything related to botany textes de toute natureconcernant la botanique et les botanistes or botanists. For detailed directives on text submission please (articles, revues de publication, commentaires,requêtes, essais, contact the Editor (see below). For general information about the etc.). Tous les supports de texte sont acceptés. Pour des ren- CBA, go to the web site: www.cba-abc.ca seignements détaillés sur la soumission de textes, veuillez consul- ter le rédacteur (voir ci-dessous). Infos générales sur I’ABC à l’url EDITOR suivant: www.cba-abc.ca Dr. Tyler Smith K.W. Neatby Building, 960 Carling Avenue RÉDACTEUR Ottawa ON, K1A 0C6 Dr. Tyler Smith [email protected] K.W. Neatby Building, 960 Carling Avenue Ottawa ON, K1A 0C6 Published in Peterborough, September 20th 2016 [email protected] ISSN 0008-3046 (paper) ISSN 1718-8164 (electronic) Publié à Peterborough, le 20 septembre 2016 ISSN 0008-3046 (papier) NEXT ISSUE ISSN 1718-8164 (électronic) Texts for the next issue, 49(3) , must be received by December 1, 2016 PROCHAIN NUMÉRO La date de tombée des textes du prochain numéro, le no 49(3) , Unless otherwise stated, all content is released under the Cre- est le 1 decembre 2016 ative Commons Attribution Share-Alike 4.0 license. Copyright remains with the authors. CBA/ABC Bulletin 49(2) 35 PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE Both geographically and scientifically, “Botany on the Edge” was a fitting theme for the CBA-ABC’s annual meeting held May 15-18, 2016 at the beautiful University of Victoria on Vancouver Island. One hundred delegates participated in field trips (e.g., to Saltspring Island; the Garry Oak ecosys- tem), the annual banquet, the annual general meeting, plus viewed the 25 posters and attended the 50 talks, including one keynote symposium (“An Exploration of Biological Cre- ativity and New Possibilities”), and a symposium on Tree Biology. Four Section Symposia (Plant Development, Ecol- ogy, Mycology, Teaching) rounded out the program. Thanks to the many participants for their important roles! The Lawson Medal recipient was Luc Brouillet (Univ. de Montréal and Botanic Gardens - IBRV), and the CBA-ABC’s inaugural Magister Teaching Award went to Arunika Gu- nawardena (Dalhousie Univ.). Bryce Kendrick (Univ. of Wa- terloo) presented the Weresub Memorial Lecture. Also, a connection was made with Linda le Geyt of the Botanical and director, west), Pauline Catling (student rep, west), Deb- Artists of Canada, with plans to continue this relationship orah Metsger (director, east), and Moira Galway (chair of De- ahead. Various student awards for presentations and ref- velopment Section). Newly elected to the board of directors ereed scientific publications, plus several travel awards to are Julian Starr (President-Elect), Nadia Cavallin (director, assist their attendance at Victoria’s meeting (see photos east), Rob Guy (director, west), and Dylan Ziegler (student and details in this issue), were given at the banquet held rep, west). The full 2016-17 board of directors and section at the wonderful Horticulture Centre of the Pacific. Another chairs is published in this issue. highly entertaining and financially successful live auction of Projecting forward from Victoria’s meeting, I look for- botanically-related memorabilia, orchestrated by Hugues ward to working with you as CBA-ABC President – a sort of Massicotte and Linda Tackaberry (plus an accompanying “Botany on the PlEdge”. Currently the ad hoc Science Policy silent auction), helped secure funds for student travel to Committee is drafting the association’s submission to the future national meetings. call by the Federal Minister of Science for a science-policy It is my pleasure, on behalf of the CBA-ABC, to thank review of Canadian universities, due by the end of Septem- the Local Organizing Committee (LOC) members Geraldine ber. Also, we shall be unveiling the first competition of the Allen, Erica Wheeler, Shannon Berch, Barbara Hawkins, Terri CBA-ABC Special Projects Fund, an initiative begun during Lacourse, and Patrick van Aderkas, for their skillful planning John’s presidency. Please see the official call in the next issue and execution of the excellent meeting in Victoria. of the Bulletin. That meeting also marked a turnover in several CBA-ABC Until then, wishing you an enjoyable, rewarding, and executive positions. For their essential assistance during this beautiful autumn 2016. Remember ... plants have all the transition, I thank John Markham for his 2-year term as Pres- anthers! ident and continuation as Past-President, and to Frédérique Respectfully, Guinel for her term as Past-President. Frédérique remains on the executive as Vice-President, chairing the LOC for next year’s meeting (July 4-8, 2017) at Wilfrid Laurier University, Art Davis, University of Saskatchewan Waterloo. For their past service, we thank Gerry Allen (VP 36 49(2) CBA/ABC Bulletin “Hidden World of Plants” Wilfrid Laurier University July 4th to July 8th, 2017 53rd Annual Meeting Keynote Speaker Main Symposium Speakers Taxonomy & Phytogeography Dr. Julissa Roncal, MUN, St. John’s Mycology Dr. Franck Stefani, AAFC, Ottawa Ecology Dr. Anna Hargreaves, UBC, Vancouver Plant & Development Dr. Ned Friedman, Harvard University, Boston Teaching Dr. Roger Hangarter, Indiana University, Bloomington Field-trips • Inglis Falls and Bruce Peninsula • A ginseng farm and Backus Woods • Rafting on the Grand River CBA/ABC Bulletin 49(2) 37 2016/17 CBA BOARD OF DIRECTORS AND SECTION CHAIRS PRESIDENT/PRÉSIDENT DIRECTORS/DIRECTEURS STUDENT REPRESENTATIVE (WEST)/ Dr. Art Davis (2016-2018) Dr. Melanie Jones (2015-2017) REPRÉSENTANT ÉTUDIANT (OUEST) Department of Biology Department of Biology Mr. Dylan Ziegler (2016-2018) University of Saskatchewan University of British Columbia - 1765 Laveau Road, Box 267 112 Science Place Okanagan Pritchard, BC V0E 2P0 Saskatoon, SK S7N 5E2 Science 385 Tel: 778-220-7483 Tel: 306-966-4484 1177 Research Road [email protected] Fax: 306-966-4461 Kelowna, BC V1V 1V7 STUDENT REPRESENTATIVE (EAST)/ Tel: 250-807-9553 [email protected] REPRÉSENTANT ÉTUDIANT (EST) PAST-PRESIDENT/PRÉSIDENT SORTANT [email protected] Mr. Warren M. Cardinal-McTeague Dr. John Markham (2016-2018) Dr. Julissa Roncal (2015-2017) (2015-2017) Department of Biological Sciences Department of Biology Canadian Museum of Nature University of Manitoba Memorial University of Newfoundland Box 3443, Station D 505 Buller Building 232 Elizabeth Avenue, Ottawa, ON K1P 6P4 Winnipeg, MB R3T 2N2 St. John’s, NL A1B 3X9 Tel: 613-566-4719 Tel: 204-474-7180 Tel: 709-864-2093 Fax: 613-364-4022 Fax: 709-864-3018 Fax: 204-474-7588 wcardinal-mcteague@mus-nature. [email protected] [email protected] ca Dr. Yolande Dalpé (2014-2017) PRESIDENT-ELECT/PRÉSIDENT ÉLU BULLETIN EDITOR/ÉDITEUR BULLETIN Agriculture et Agro-Alimentaire Dr. Julian Starr (2016-2018) Dr. Tyler Smith (2013-2017) Canada Department of Biology AAFC, Central Experimental Farm Ferme Expérimentale Centrale University of Ottawa 960 Carling Avenue 960 Avenue Carling Rm 160, 30 Marie Curie Ottawa, ON K1A 0C6 Ottawa, ON K1A 0C6 Ottawa, ON K1N 6N5 Tel: 613-694-2446 Tel: 613-759-1381 Tel: 613-562-5800 x6100 [email protected] Fax: 613-759-1701 Fax: 613-562-5486 [email protected] WEBMASTER/PAGE WEB [email protected] Dr. Daya Dayanandan (2007-2017) Dr. Erica Wheeler (2014-2017) VICE-PRESIDENT/VICE-PRÉSIDENTE Department of Biology Royal BC Museum Dr. Frédérique Guinel (2016-2017) Concordia University 675 Belleville Street Department of Biology 7141 Sherbrooke St. West Victoria, BC V8W 9W2 Wilfrid Laurier University Montréal, QC H4B 1R6 Tel: 250-387-2918 75 University Avenue West Tel: 514-848-2424, ext.3414 Fax: 250-387-0534 Waterloo, ON N2L 3C5 Fax: 514-848-2881 [email protected] Tel: 519-884-0710 ext.2230 [email protected] Fax: 519-746-0677 Ms. Nadia Cavallin (2016-2018) ECOLOGY SECTION (CO-CHAIRS)/ [email protected] Herbarium, Royal Botanical Gardens 680 Plains Road West ÉCOLOGIE (CO-PRÉSIDENTS) SECRETARY/SECRÉTAIRE Burlington, ON L7T 4H4 Dr. Nicole Fenton (2014-2017) Dr. Julia Nowak(2015-2018) Tel: 905-527-1158 Université du Québec en Abitibi- Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada Fax: 905-577-0375 Témiscamingue 1391 Sandford Street [email protected] 445 Boulevard de l’Université London, ON N5V 4T3 Rouyn-Noranda, QC J9X 4E5 Dr.