Carnivorous Conservation
…plant, it’s an opportunity to live a little longer in a habitat nearly barren of nutrients. The Venus flytrap, and carnivorous plants like them, are oddities of the plant world….
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Alton McCaleb Harvill, Jr.
…Harvill” and his spouse, Barbara J. Harvill, was a co-collector on many specimens. His hand-written herbarium can be challenging to read. As we continue to catalog our collections, without doubt…
Mary Eugenia Wharton
…include those of Meijer [Meijer, W. (1992) Mary Wharton. Kentucky Native Plant Society Newsletter 7(1): 2-3] and Wieland [Wieland, C. (1992) Mary Eugenia Wharton, 1912-1991. Kentucky Native Plant Society Newsletter…
Following in Botanical Footsteps at Rocky Face Mountain
…30 to 700. Hyams gained national attention and acclaim for his work. By 1876, their herb operation was doing over $50,000 in business, as herb gathering kept many rural North…
New Virginia Gems in the Herbarium
…a fold of newsprint, with a label tucked in with the plant. There were 35 plants in all; the collection of Carex cristatella, “crested sedge,” had enough material for two…
Willard Webster Eggleston
…C.P. Sm. “silky lupine” Myosurus egglestonii Wooton & Standl. Quercus X egglestonii Trel. “Eggleston’s oak” Rubus egglestonii Blanch. Rubus idaeus var. egglstonii (Blanch.) Fern. Viola egglestonii Brainerd Viola septemloba ssp….
Carl John Burk
…Carolina University (WCUH), and William & Mary (WILLI).2 Specimens Burk collected from the Outer Banks area also curated by the National Park Service at the Cape Hatteras National Seashore, but…
Mary Cloyd Burnley Stifler
…and 1940’s from various locations around Bradenton, Manatee County, Florida, from Lake Geneva, Walworth County, Wisconsin, and from Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore. She sent many to Dr. William Chambers Coker…
What is Therapeutic Horticulture?
…be applied to almost all situations, indoors or outdoors. Brief history of the therapeutic horticulture/horticultural therapy field In 1817, Benjamin Rush, a physician, politician, and social reformer who is considered…
The Search for Moose Haven: On the Trail of Rev. Hugh O’Neill
…that in 1929 and 1930, there was an infestation of Mediterranean Fruit Fly (Ceratitis capitata) in northern and central Florida. The “Med fly” is “one of the world’s most destructive…