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Students from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill are invited to apply for the Fred and Virginia Houk Sustainability Internship at the North Carolina Botanical Garden. This part-time…
by Guy Nesom, Ph.D. Research Associate, Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania The ‘weakley’ of Alan Weakley now also belongs with a species in the sunflower…
by Carol Ann McCormick*, John Gaskin, Ph.D.#, and Mark Schwarzlaender, Ph.D. % In late May 2021, Suzanne Cadwell, all-around naturalist and avid contributor to iNaturalist, got a message from Dr….
This week, Garden staff and interns joined Duke environmental management master’s student Lydie Costes at Penny’s Bend Nature Preserve to plant 750 seedlings of glade blue wild indigo (Baptisia aberrans)…
Our conservation department is growing sensitive jointvetch (Aeschynomene virginica) for restoration at Lake Mattamuskeet, in cooperation with the US Fish and Wildlife Service. This wildflower is a Federally Threatened member of the pea family that occurs in fresh and brackish tidal marshes from New Jersey down to North Carolina.
By Carol Ann McCormick, Curator, UNC-Chapel Hill Herbarium The Couch Award is given to a senior biology major with interests in plant biology who has demonstrated the highest ideals of…
by Van Cotter, Herbarium Research Associate, UNC-CH Herbarium (NCU); Suzanne Cadwell, Director, ITS-Educational Technologies; Dan Meyers, Corbin Bryan, and Davis Upchurch, Undergraduates UNC-CH On April 17-18, the North Carolina Botanical…
by Van Cotter, Herbarium Research Associate, UNC at CH Herbarium (NCU) and John S. Gibbs, Willow Spring, North Carolina Thanks to the dedicated mycological exploration by the junior author, who…
A summer internship opportunity at Battle Park Note: This internship is open to current undergraduate students at UNC-Chapel Hill only. Applications due: 3/14/2021 Location: Battle Park and other NCBG natural…
Since the mid 1990s, references have been made to an undescribed lobelia in the Sandhills region of North and South Carolina. Albert B. Pittman of the South Carolina Heritage Trust was first to note that this lobelia was very similar to savanna lobelia (Lobelia glandulosa Walter) but differed in several points.