The crystal skipper (Atrytonopsis quinteri) is a rare butterfly. In fact, it is so rare, it’s only found on the Crystal Coast in North Carolina, specifically, a region stretching…
Saving the Crystal Skipper
Category: Research
This is the category for research related posts from the herbarium and conservation.
Herbarium Research Shows Lost Wildflower Grew Only in NC
Thanks to research in the UNC-Chapel Hill Herbarium, part of the Garden, we now know that Appalachian Barbara’s buttons (Marshallia grandiflora) was a distinct species that grew just in Henderson…
Year One of Native Plant Materials Development
In 2019, the North Carolina Botanical Garden initiated a Native Plant Materials Development (NPMD) project designed to provide ourselves and others seeds and/or plugs for natural area restoration primarily…
Oliver Myles Freeman
(16 July 1891 – 13 February 1979 ) The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Herbarium (NCU) curates over 800 specimens collected by Oliver Myles Freeman. As our collection continues…
Video: Bringing Back Piedmont Prairies
Our region, the southeastern Piedmont, is one of the fastest-growing population centers in the country. Historically, much of the Piedmont was covered by prairies – some with scattered trees…
Eno/New Hope Conservation Plan Released
A Landscape Plan for Wildlife Habitat Connectivity in the Eno River and New Hope Creek Watersheds, North Carolina. The Eno-New Hope Landscape Conservation Plan was produced by a collaboration among local…
Wildflowers of the Atlantic Southeast wins National Outdoor Book Award
2019 NATIONAL OUTDOOR BOOK AWARD WINNERS ANNOUNCED A gripping tale of a kayak voyage across the Pacific. A consummate biography of the great conservationist George Bird Grinnell. A thought provoking…
Don’t get caught without one!
The North Carolina Botanical Garden Foundation, Inc. and the Friends of Plant Conservation (FoPC) are teaming up to offer a new North Carolina license plate featuring the Venus flytrap (Dionaea…
Staying on Mission with Restoration
Fort Bragg stretches across 251 square miles of the North Carolina Sandhills, and is the home of the Airborne and Special Operations Forces. The bustle of the base is made…
Carnivorous Conservation
Native only to a 90-mile inland radius around Wilmington, the Venus flytrap is a symbol of the Atlantic coastal plain’s unique ecology — and a contender for the federal endangered…