Brenda Molano-Flores (INHS), colleagues, and graduate students received an Appreciation Award from the US Fish and Wildlife Service in recognition of their leadership in the conservation of natural resources in northwest Florida.
This team of scientists and graduate students has been conducting research on federally listed plants in the Florida Panhandle, including the carnivorous plant Pinguicula ionantha (Godfrey's butterwort) and the Florida endemic Scutellaria floridana (Florida Skullcap).
Other members of the team are Jean Mengelkoch (INHS), Mary Ann Feist (University of Wisconsin-Madison), Samantha B. Primer (UI-Plant Biology), Janice Coons, and Jenna Annis (both from Eastern Illinois University-Biological Sciences).
For more information on their research, visit their website.
