Peter Del Tredici

Peter Del Tredici, Botanist, Harvard University

5:00pm PST Friday, November 15th, 2024

Business Rotunda (03-213)

 

Peter Del Tredici is an American botanist and author. He is a former senior research scientist at Arnold Arboretum and has been an Associate Professor in Practice in the Landscape Architecture Department at the Harvard Graduate School of Design from 1992 through 2016 and in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning (DUSP) at MIT until 2019. In 2013, he was awarded the prestigious Veitch Gold Medal by The Royal Horticultural Society (England).

Del Tredici, a native Californian, is an advocate of a “radically practical” approach to urban plant life, holding that what some people see as a collection of undesirable plants should be viewed as a valuable ecosystem unique to the hostile habitat of the city. Del Tredici is the author of Wild Urban Plants of the Northeast: A Field Guide, which catalogs and describes the many species of urban wildflowers, weeds, and other plants that flourish without human support.