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Category: Research

This is the category for research related posts from the herbarium and conservation.

Don’t get caught without one!

Posted on November 16, 2019 (December 4, 2019) by Jennifer Peterson

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…

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Staying on Mission with Restoration

Posted on November 8, 2019 (November 8, 2019) by Damon Waitt

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…

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Carnivorous Conservation

Posted on September 13, 2019 (September 13, 2019) by Damon Waitt

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…

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Fighting Fire with Fire

Posted on September 11, 2019 (September 11, 2019) by Jennifer Peterson
Johnny Randall at a prescribed fire

The North Carolina Botanical Garden’s prescribed fire program was featured in endeavors, the research magazine of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Click to view and read this…

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Logan Clark – 2019 North Carolina Botanical Garden Award

Posted on July 11, 2019 (July 15, 2019) by Damon Waitt
student botanizing

Under the direction of Dr. Matt Estep, Department of Biology, Appalachian State University, Boone, NC, Logan Clark receives 2019 North Carolina Botanical Garden Award for his work entitled: Blazing New…

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Alyssa Chen – 2019 C. Ritchie Bell Award

Posted on July 3, 2019 (July 15, 2019) by Damon Waitt
Alyssa Chen

As a chainsaw-wielding AmeriCorps member in the woods of southeastern North Carolina last summer, Alyssa Chen gained memorable and transformative experience in boots-on-the-ground conservation. Those seven weeks of embracing the…

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Wildflowers of the Atlantic Southeast

Posted on June 8, 2019 (July 13, 2019) by Damon Waitt
cover of Wildflowers of the Atlantic Southeast book

The GO-TO GUIDE forWildflower Hunting in Your State Wildflowers of the Atlantic Southeast describes and illustrates 1,250 species commonly encountered in Virginia, West Virginia, Maryland, Delaware, New Jersey, Washington D.C.,…

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The Backstory of Little Sweet Betsy

Posted on April 9, 2019 (May 8, 2019) by Chris Johnson
trillium

By Carol Ann McCormick, Curator, UNC Herbarium. On a recent Sunday in late March, my husband and I left a neighborhood potluck and headed to RDU for Mark’s 3 p.m….

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Emma Wilson – 2018-19 Fred and Virginia Houk Sustainability Intern

Posted on November 12, 2018 (July 15, 2019) by Damon Waitt
Emma Wilson

This month’s shout out is Emma Wilson, the 2018-19 Fred and Virginia Houk Sustainability Intern! Emma has helped to keep the Garden on track with sustainability goals and has jumped…

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Hannah Medford – 2018 Charles T. Mohr Intern

Posted on January 1, 2018 (July 15, 2019) by Damon Waitt
Hannah Medford

Hannah Medford, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Class of 2019 majoring in Biology and English, is the Charles T. Mohr Intern in the University of North Carolina Herbarium…

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