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Garden Honors Larry Mellichamp with Flora Caroliniana Award

Posted on April 20, 2022 (May 5, 2022) by Jennifer Peterson
Larry Mellichamp holds the Flora Caroliniana Award, flanked by Alan Weakley and Johnny Randall of NCBG

The North Carolina Botanical Garden is proud to award Larry Mellichamp with the Flora Caroliniana Award. Mellichamp is the seventh person to receive this honor, given for enthusiasm and service to the preservation, restoration, and appreciation of the natural world around us.

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A River Runs Around It: Restoring the Rare Flora of Penny’s Bend

Posted on April 19, 2022 (April 20, 2022) by Jennifer Peterson
Duke University Environmental Management master’s student Lydie Costes leads an efforet to plant 800 seedlings of prairie blue wild indigo at Penny’s Bend.

Two hundred million years ago, before birds existed, or bees, or wildflowers, molten rock seeped into cracks below the surface of what’s now Durham, North Carolina.

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By Their Specific Epithets Ye Shall Know Them… Most of the Time

Posted on April 5, 2022 (May 4, 2022) by Carol Ann McCormick
Youngia japonica, an invasive species, in bloom

Youngia japonica, an invasive species, in bloom. By Carol Ann McCormick, Curatrix, UNC-Chapel Hill Herbarium One of the problems with humans moving around the globe is that we bring other species…

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Pressing Matters: How to Press a Plant for an Herbarium

Posted on April 5, 2022 (April 5, 2022) by Carol Ann McCormick

Interested in making an herbarium specimen?  There are a few things to keep in mind, and a few materials you’ll need. Keep in mind: Be sure you have permission to…

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Alton McCaleb Harvill, Jr.

Posted on March 31, 2022 (April 10, 2022) by Carol Ann McCormick

(1916-2008) The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (NCU) curates over 890 vascular plant specimens collected by Alton McCaleb Harvill, Jr.  He usually signed his specimens as “A. M….

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Paul Wilson Titman

Posted on March 27, 2022 by Carol Ann McCormick

(30 August 1920 – 18 May 2000) The University of North Carolina Chapel Hill Herbarium (NCU) has catalogued 17 vascular plant specimens and 8 fungal specimens collected by Paul W….

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Ernest Gibbes Patton

Posted on March 27, 2022 by Carol Ann McCormick

(d. 28 August 2010) The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Herbarium (NCU) has cataloged about 80 vascular plant specimens and 2 fungal specimens collected by E. Gibbes Patton….

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Arthur Stanley Pease

Posted on March 17, 2022 by Carol Ann McCormick

(22 September 1881 – 7 January 1964) The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Herbarium (NCU) has cataloged about 70 vascular plants and half a dozen fungi collected by…

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Delzie Demaree

Posted on March 17, 2022 (May 8, 2022) by Carol Ann McCormick
DWG for Demaree

15 September 1889 — 2 July 1987 The University of North Carolina Herbarium at Chapel Hill has cataloged nearly 1700 vascular plant specimens collected by Delzie Demaree. Without doubt many more…

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Further Afield: Skunk Alert at Lake Townsend

Posted on March 2, 2022 (March 2, 2022) by Carol Ann McCormick

I moved to Chapel Hill and started working at NCBG in December 1991. I had a one year contract, funded by a grant from the Institute for Museum & Library…

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