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…
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The Bees Are Back!
…in their minds, and get up close and personal with the bees. Responsible for pollinating one third of the world’s food and produce, these fascinating creatures captivated everyone, and are…
Following in Botanical Footsteps at Rocky Face Mountain
…Carolina Rocky Face Mountain is an outlier of the Brushy Mountains which start near the city of Lenoir in Caldwell County and run northeast through Alexander, Wilkes, and Iredell Counties…
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…
Mary Williams Ward Shanor
…at the University of Illinois in Urbana, Mary did natural history survey research until World War II broke out. Mary went with Lee, who was a field grade officer, to…
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…
Jumping the Gap with Northern Wireweed
…the gap between states. Ruth’s golden-aster (Pityopsis ruthii in the Aster Family) has been documented from southeastern Tennessee, but never found in neighboring North Carolina. Dwarf greenbriar (Smilax pumila in…
William Chambers Coker
…first to form forests. NCU’s pteridophyte specimens collected from around the world, including those collected by W. C. Coker, can be searched at pteridoportal.org Reliquiae Cokeriana Below are two samples…
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…
Luther Stanford Beard
…Carolina to Sailor Oswald Beard (1888-1966) and Lillie Frances McCrackan (1890-1970). Two of Stanford’s older brothers served in the United States military and died in World War II: Sailor Oswald…