John R. Bozeman

…was very handy with tools. In fact, if doing something more efficiently necessitated a gadget of some sort, he would simply make it, and at little or no cost to…

Loan & Accession Policy

…custody and return of the specimens. Loans are made without charge or service fee; it is expected that the borrowing institution will pay the costs of return shipment. Specimens must…

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…

William McCally Pollock

…Virginia. Other herbaria curating specimens collected by Pollock include the Field Museum (F), Missouri Botanical Garden (MO), New Mexico State University (NMC), New York Botanical Garden (NY), San Diego State…

James Rex Baird

…of Mexico,” in 1969. Dr. Baird was a member of the faculty in the Department of Natural Sciences at the University of Virginia at Wise and co-chaired the Flora Committee…

Harley Harris Bartlett

…field work and research took him to Sumatra, Formosa, Mexico, Guatemala and British Honduras, the Philippines, Panama, Haiti, Argentina, Uruguay, and Chile… In his honor, his students and friends established…

2024 NC Wildflower of the Year

…seed distribution to a 12-state region of the Southeast, from the Mississippi River to the Atlantic Ocean and from the Gulf of Mexico north to Kentucky, West Virginia, Maryland and…

2023 NC Wildflower of the Year

…consistently moist to wet, rich soils in full to part sun, but it is adaptable to various soil types and does not need to be planted in standing water to…

Henry Ashby Rankin

…here their most congenial surroundings. But Grass-of-Parnassus does not star the meadows during the steaming season, instead, the “Eyebright,” its local name, times its first flowers to come just two…