2020 Wildflower of the Year

…fever outbreak in Philadelphia. One of this species’ common names, bitter-bloom, refers to the bitter foliage that is reportedly unpalatable to browsing mammals. Marsh-pink grows best in moist soil in…

Sarah “Sadie” Frances Price

…and Herbarium of Sadie Price” Cassidy Moody writes, “Sadie Price was born in 1849, and spent much of her childhood in Bowling Green, Kentucky. In her 20s, Price was stricken…

Q & A with President Greg Fitch

…invasives have done to our landscape – but the Garden pushed it further for me. NCBG made the case that the plants that are found locally are best adapted to…

Thomas Fanning Wood

…Papers. #172, Randall Library Special Collections. Wood, Thomas F. 1881. North Carolina as a field for the naturalist. At Home and Abroad 1: [145]-151, [217]-224, [289]-291. Wood, Thomas F. 1882….

Ellsworth Bethel

…by the writer, was found to have an earlier name so must be relegated to synonymy. In 1917 he began work for the United States Department of Agriculture in the…

Rassie Everton Wicker

…was best known as a writer and historian. He compiled much of the information used by Blackwell Robinson in his The County of Moore 1747-1847. Errata and Addenda [for The…

Katherine Augusta Taylor

…social set wore only dresses with white gloves and never earned a living. Local legend,” writes Pat Schooley of the Hagerstown Herald-Mail, “says that Taylor had fallen in love with…