2021 Wildflower of the Year

…its seed packs! American beautyberry Callicarpa americana Once again, we are bending the definition of a wildflower to offer American beautyberry (Callicarpa americana) as our 2021 Wildflower of the Year….

Rachel Milner Fell Treakle

…the help of an African American man by the name of Milton Barton. Barton and his family lived in Alton, IL where Milton worked as a nurseryman. According to Barton…

Samuel Mills Tracy

…Tracy lived in retirement. As NCU’s collections continue to be cataloged without doubt many more specimens collected by S.M. Tracy will be found. Tracy’s specimens are distributed widely across herbaria…

Search Herbarium Specimens

…Pteridophyte Collections Consortium – Ferns & Fern Allies Pteridophytes (ferns, lycophytes, and their extinct seed-free relatives) are a diverse group of plants that today comprises approximately 12,000 species and plays…

Augustin Gattinger

…of Mr. Shuttleworth, of England. Senecio rugelia Gray, Plantago rugellii Decaisne, Siphonychia rugelii Chapm. commemorate his name. My collections were in much request for exchange, as they contained many novelties…

Gertrude I. Grimsley Scott

…Carolina College for Women World War II Enlistment Records: National Archives and Records Administration. Electronic Army Serial Number Merged File, 1938-1946 [Archival Database]; ARC: 1263923. World War II Army Enlistment…

Frederick Gustav Meyer

…Meyer, and V. punctata F. G. Meyer, all published in “New species of Valeriana from Colombia, Ecuador and Peru” in 1965 in Brittonia 17(2); 112-120. Patricia Sullivan’s obituary of F….

Eugène Poilane

…in 1909. He worked at the naval arsenal for some years, until he chanced to meet naturalist Auguste Chevalier, who after the First World War appointed Poilane as a prospector…

Lytt Irvine Gardner, Sr.

…at the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. During World War II, he served with the medical corps and reached the rank of captain. He was the officer in charge of…