Up Now: Sculpture in the Garden

…It’s free to visit during normal Garden hours (donations welcome), and all ages are welcome. Most sculptures are available for purchase, and a portion of proceeds benefits the North Carolina…

Richard J. LeBlond

…Hoffmann. 2011. Lost and found: Remnants of the Big Savannah and their relationship to west savannas in North Carolina. Castanea 76(4): 348-365. LeBlond, Richard J. and Daniel F. Brunton. 2010….

William Chambers Coker

…He had also begun the planting of the Coker Arboretum adjacent to Davie Hall. Coker’s research interests were far-ranging. His Ph.D. research concerned the embryogeny of Taxodium (bald cypress). He…

Arthur Stanley Pease

…—- (1918) Nuttall and Pickering in the White Mountains. Rhodora 20: 39. —- (1920) The son of Croesus. Classical Philology 15 (2): 201-202. —- (1921) Gray Pine and Arbor-Vitae. Rhodora…

Frederick William Gray

…devoted to the growing of gladiolus: Yearbook (Gladiolus-growing), The Illinois Glad Bulletin, “Gladiolus“, Calgary, Canada, and the New Zealand Yearbook. Although his contributions in this field are of much importance,…

Digging into the Science

…Daniel Gluesenkamp. 2020. Vascular plant extinction in the continental United States and Canada. Conservation Biology. https://doi.org/10.1111/cobi.13621 Knapp Wesley M., Derick B. Poindexter, and Alan S. Weakley. 2020. The true identity…

Henry Ashby Rankin

…Henry Rankin, who had discovered the plant. Small’s description was published in Addisonia 13: 37-38. In 2006 Rankin’s granddaughters, Dorothy and Douglass Rankin, gave his papers to the Southern Historical…

Max Hoyt Hommersand

…Report for 1970-1971 to National Oceanographic [i.e., Oceanic] and Atmospheric Agency [ie, Adminsitration], Office of Sea Grant Programs, Grant No. GH103, Project UNC-10. Chapel Hill, N.C.; Morehead City, N.C.: Institute…

Arthur Stanley Pease

…Four introduced plants at Cambridge, Massachusetts. Rhodora 10: 167. —- (1908) Preliminary lists of New England Plants XV, addenda. Rhodora 10: 36. —- (1909) Certain railroad weeds of northern New…