Mary Menz is a retired career writer & editor. She is also a CO Native Plant Master. Menz is author of Wildflowers of Colorado’s Western Slope and Common Wildflowers of the San Juan Mountains.. Menz has been a member of the Ute Museum’s all-volunteer ethnobotany garden team since 2017. She worked extensively with History Colorado and the Ute Tribes to develop interpretive signage for the ethnobotany garden.

Join Mary on this stroll through the Botanic Gardens where she will share some of the nutritional, medicinal, cultural, and ceremonial uses of native plants used by the Utes.