Annual Membership Meeting 2023

Annual NCBGF Membership Meeting Friday, November 17, 2023 1 – 2 p.m. Virtual, Zoom Join online: https://unc.zoom.us/s/92157457373 Join by phone: 1-305-224-1968 Enter Meeting ID: 921 5745 7373 Membership Meeting (Virtual…

Samuel McCutchen Bain

…but he had the ability to draw about him a small band of deeply interested students, who were inspired by is earnestness and devotion to his subjects, as well as…

Tree Cores Come to the Herbarium

…Islands National Seashore, we were the logical place to deposit the cores. On February 4, I drove to Greensboro to fetch the tree cores and to tour the Carolina Tree-Ring…

Therapeutic Horticulture History and Staff

…surrounding communities have benefited from the dedicated leadership of several passionate program managers: Judy Carrier: 1978-1984 Bibby Moore: 1984-1992 Nancy Easterling: 1992-2009 Sally Haskett: 2009- 2021 Emilee Weaver: 2022-present Read…

Michel Georges Desire Lelong

…his doctorate in 1965 with Dr. Richard Pohl at Iowa State University. The title of his dissertation was “Studies of reproduction and variation in some Panicum subgenus Dichanthelium”. In June,…

Hugo Leander Blomquist

…botanists Coulter, Cowles, and Chamberlain upon whom he drew heavily throughout his professional life that was to follow. In 1921 Dr. Blomquist came to Trinity College (later Duke University) as…

Egbert Hamilton Walker

Dr. F. R. Fosberg has said: “Any perceptive botanist who works extensively in the general Old World collections in the U.S. National Herbarium can scarcely fail to appreciate the prevailing…

Benjamin Franklin Bush

…correspondent of Dr. George Engelmann and Dr. Asa Gray; in his later years his correspondents included many of the leading botanists of American and a number abroad. In 1886, when…

Enchantress along the Eno

…an example of a too-zealous attempt to have nomenclature reflect subtleties of relationship and evolutionary divergence, our understanding of which is unclear and changeable,” says Dr. Alan Weakley in his…