Visitation

…will be sent. In order to control herbarium pests, incoming specimens to the Vascular Herbarium are frozen for 48 hours or more. Users of the collection who bring specimens in…

Ferdinand Blanchard

(8 November 1851- 18 December 1892) “Earth is so full of things to know and see From Northern Lights to animanculae”   The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill…

Carnivorous Conservation

…Carl Linnaeus, a famous 18th-century botanist who developed the modern method of assigning species scientific names, dubbed flytraps “against the order of nature as willed by God.” But Charles Darwin…

George Andrew Christenberry

…“A taxonomic study of the Mucorales in the southeastern United States”. Pilobolus crystallinus in the fungi order Mucorales Image was created by Sava Krstic at Mushroom Observer   Published in…

John R. Bozeman

…several terms. In 1965 he received his MA degree and was well on his way toward a PhD, when he decided he needed to get a job in order to…

New boardwalk open at Mason Farm

…Hurricane Florence, but those funds fell $150,000 short of the full cost of design, engineering, permits, materials, and labor. In order to open the boardwalk to visitors as soon as…

Samuel McCutchen Bain

…Carl Nordman. 2002. Helianthus verticillatus Small (Asteraceae) Rediscovered and Redescribed. Castanea 67(1) 13-24. 2. Ancestry.com. 1910 United States Federal Census [database online]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc. 2006. Year:…