Master’s Student, Environmental Horticulture Department at the University of Florida

Carlee’s research focus is the introduction of native plants into the landscape market. As an undergraduate at Clemson University, she worked in several different research labs with the propagation of endangered and native plants. Additionally, she worked for two and half years at the South Carolina Botanic Garden. Upon graduation, she took a job with the Chicago Botanic Garden and Bureau of Land Management collecting native seed in the Mojave Desert.

Carlee received her Bachelors of Science in Conservation Biology from Clemson University.

Carlee hopes to continue on and receive her Ph.D. in Horticulture focusing on native plant propagation and preservation of imperiled plant species.