Welcome, new Herbarium students!

…Tar Heel (DTH). Newspaper is an essential item for plant collectors, as each specimen is placed in a fold of newspaper in the plant press. Fortuitously, the DTH is the…

Devoted to Dalea

…New World from Canada to Argentina, with 75 of those species endemic to Mexico.1 Though a member of the pea/bean family (Fabaceae), the flowers of many species are small and…

Q & A with President Greg Fitch

…have I made the distinction between native and exotic plants. I’d always been curious about natives – I mean, you can’t live in the South without noticing the havoc exotic…

Andrew Clark Mathews

…United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2002. 5. Staff Biographical Information, Clemson News Bureau, 1960. “Mathews, A. C.” Clemson University Archives. 6. Pers. comm….

Garden Shop Now Online!

You can now order from our Garden Shop online! From botanical t-shirts to gardening books to native wildflower seeds to crafts by local artists, you’re sure to find an awesome…

North Carolina Wildflower Week

…Week. Click here to read the proclamation. Wildflowers do much more than add beauty to the landscape. They help conserve water, reduce mowing costs, provide habitat for birds, butterflies and…

Anne Elizabeth Bowden McCrary

rutilus (Coquillett). M.A. Thesis, Zoology Department, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. SOURCES: 1. Steelman, Ben. November 8, 2011. Wilmington naturalist McCrary leaves local legacy. StarNews Online. https://www.starnews*]}*online.com/news/20111108/wilmington-naturalist-mccrary-leaves-local-legacy accessed