Sandhills Pyxie-Moss Rescue

…bulldozed. Their main target was Sandhills pyxie-moss (Pyxidanthera barbulata var. brevifolia), a rare shrub that — in the entire world — grows only in six counties in the Sandhills of…

Up Now: Sculpture in the Garden

The 35th annual Sculpture in the Garden opens on Sunday, September 17 and runs until Sunday, December 3. Sculpture in the Garden unites the work of local artists with the…

Stewart Henry Burnham

…Fungal Collection (BPI), Utah State University (UTC), Iowa State University (ISC), Louisiana State University (LSU), Purdue University (PUR, PUL), Oregon State University (OSC), Rutgers University (CHRB), University of Illinois at…

Leva Belle Walker

…University of Nebraska-Lincoln in 1946. Following [World War II], Dean C. H. Oldfather recommended the Chancellor and the Board of Regents of the University place both Elda and Leva on…

Educational Exhibits

…in the world and what we’re doing to save the seeds of rare plants in this educational exhibit. Past exhibits have included Saving Our Birds, Saving Our Wildflowers, Saving Our…

Orchids: Masters of Deception

…by scientists. As a graduate student, many decades ago, I learned that orchids exemplify two of the plant world’s most intricate forms of symbiosis: associations with soil fungi and pollination…

Juliet Faunteroy

…natural world and spent a portion of each day walking in woods surrounding her home. Her nephew remembers that she never returned with out a basket of berries or nuts…

John Marshall Grant

…Grant’s specimens have been distributed to various herbaria, and to private collectors, throughout the world. He corresponded with and exchanged specimens with botanists in nearly every part of the earth….

Delzie Demaree

…plants on the spot in his rugged, beat-up field press…He discarded newspapers printed with comic strips. He reasoned that to use comics for pressing plants was to tempt an hourly…

Herbert Spencer Jackson

…was recognized as a world authority on the rust and smut fungi, and to our knowledge of these groups he contributed thirty-one journal articles. In the Toronto area Professor Jackson…