Graduate Student Research Awards

The award will be used to aid in collection of specimens, in visiting herbaria, and in collection of preliminary data for a research project that 1) uses an explicitly phylogenetic approach to help identify relationships among species and limits between putative species among Myriophyllum; and 2) uses the phylogenetic hypotheses to a) examine the limits and evolution of plasticity in the “North American” clade and b) investigate the role of hybridization in this prolific invasive species.