14 January 1949 – 6 August 2021 1 The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Herbarium (NCU) curates about 200 vascular plant specimens collected by Pamela E. Burns Balogh.2 …
Pamela Burns-Balogh
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Jumping the Gap with Northern Wireweed
by Zachary Bradford Chesapeake Bay Region Steward, Virginia Natural Heritage Program It’s an October tradition for the Virginia Natural Heritage Program’s southeastern stewardship staff to harvest longleaf pine (Pinus palustris)…
March Madness: Botanical Sports Mascots
By Carol Ann McCormick Curatrix, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Herbarium As we enter the Bracket Season, a.k.a. March Madness, I have been contemplating sports team names, colors,…
Further Afield: Strolling Around Purgatory
On a sunny and pleasant November Sunday, my husband, Peif, and I decided to explore someplace new. We wanted to walk on forested trails, to bring our dog Luna, and…
Mabelle M. Bradford
(31 July 1873 – 15 May 1918)1, 2 Mabelle Maria Bradford Greaves http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q124291045 Herbaria curate few specimens collected by Mabelle Bradford, and all specimens found thus far were collected on…
A bounty of botany on Florida’s Lake Wales Ridge
by Scott G. Ward, NCBG Research Botanist There is perhaps no better summary of the peril of the Lake Wales Ridge than Turner et al. (2006). In their report “State…
Hugo Leander Blomquist
(5 June 1888 – 28 November 1964) The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Herbarium (NCU) has cataloged 97 vascular plant specimens, 29 bryophytes, and 2 fungi collected by…
Harriet Lathrop Merrow
(September 1858- 21 November 1941) The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Herbarium (NCU) has cataloged one vascular plant specimen and about thirty micro-fungi specimens collected by Ms. Merrow…
Edwin Lynn Bridges
( b. 18 April 1957 ) The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Herbarium (NCU) curates at least 443 vascular plant specimens collected by Edwin L. Bridges. Without doubt…
Edwin Huey Bullington
(27 July 1937 – 13 September 2018)1 The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Herbarium (NCU) curates about a dozen specimens collected by Edwin Huey Bullington. He usually signed…