Ken E. Rogers

…Mississippi Herbarium (USMS) in 1968. “Dr. Rogers had a keen eye for plants and was a prolific collector. He helped convince the administration of the importance of the Ragland Hills…

Rassie Everton Wicker

…collected in his native Moore County, North Carolina, but there are a few from Hoke and Lee Counties as well. In addition to NCU other herbaria which curate specimens collected…

What’s Your Flavor? Special Event

…Kitchen. Participants will then travel to the Museum where many of the artists will be available to talk about their work displayed in the exhibit. Each talk will include paired…

Further Afield: Strolling Around Purgatory

…had encountered (and were puzzled by!) Horse-sugar had been at Hemlock Bluffs Nature Preserve in February 2023. Distribution of Horse-sugar (Symplocos tinctoria) in North Carolina. Courtesy of North Carolina Biodiversity…

Land Acknowledgement

…action to advocate for and support the agendas of Native communities. The Garden and Foundation aspire to understand and share a complete history of the land we steward. Indigenous Land…

Enchantress along the Eno

…New Life. https://www.npr.org/2018/04/11/599831473/circe-gives-the-witch-of-the-odyssey-a-new-life accessed on 30 June 2021. The Confluence Natural Area is located at 4214 Highland Farm Road, Hillsborough, NC, and is open daily from dawn to dusk. It…

New Species of Foamflower

…life. He surely must have lived in the town of Gloucester, but he had property in the country on the Piankatank River (or creek) and the Poropotank River (or creek),…

Mildred Gant Stites Reed

…of Dartmouth College in 2002. Her spouse, John F. Reed, an alumnus of Dartmouth College (A.B., 1933), had apparently given his herbarium to his alma mater.2 The Academy of Natural…

Alma Joslyn Whiffen Barksdale

…Whiffen Barksdale, 1916-1981. Mycologia 74(3): 359-361. 3. American Type Culture Collection. https://www.atcc.org/ searched 8 May 2020. 4. “Records of the Laboratory (RG5) ALMA WHIFFEN BARKSDALE RECORDS (1938-1973). https://sciweb.nybg.org/science2/libr/finding_guide/barkweb2.asp.html Accessed on…

Percy H. Gentle

…of an Important National Resource. http://www.ukbelizeassociation.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/ZAG_UKBA_2019.pdf Nelson, C. 1990. Early collectors of plants from Honduras and the confusion with British Honduras (Belize). Taxon 39(4): 568-571. https://www.jstor.org/stable/1223361 Bartlett, H. H. (1932)….