Dear Friends of the Herbarium,

today viewed as primary sources for information on southeastern U.S plants—information that is a foundational tool used by botanists, foresters, horticulturists, conservationists, and students throughout the U.S. With help from…

Video: Bringing Back Piedmont Prairies

…few remaining grasslands. This week, the partnership released two videos documenting the history of these prairies – and what we’re doing to bring them back from the brink. The videos

NCBGF Committees

…potential to advance the plant conservation mission. Finance Committee — Chair, NCBGF Treasurer Niels Lameijer The NCBGF Treasurer will chair a finance committee and will work with the financial officer…

James Everard Benedict, Jr.

…throughout the southeastern United States. The earliest specimen that we have found to date is Rudbeckia umbrosa collected in 1923 from Montgomery County, Maryland, while the latest we have found…

Mary Eugenia Wharton

…include those of Meijer [Meijer, W. (1992) Mary Wharton. Kentucky Native Plant Society Newsletter 7(1): 2-3] and Wieland [Wieland, C. (1992) Mary Eugenia Wharton, 1912-1991. Kentucky Native Plant Society Newsletter…

Black Lives Matter

…George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, and David McAtee, and over the tragic reality that these are only the latest instances in our country’s long history of violent racism. Environmentalism,…

John White Chickering, Jr.

…found in US. Blue Ridge Three-lobed Coneflower, Rudbeckia rupestris Chick. was published in 1881 in Coult. Bot. Gaz.vi: 188. This plant is found in Kentucky, Tennessee and North Carolina, and…

Miklos Treiber

…http://www.sossomanfh.com/obituary/5913-dr-miklos-treiber accessed on 2 April 2020. 2. Chang, Julien. 2011. After 4o years, bookstore’s story near the end. The News Herald, 3 Feb. 2011. https://www.morganton.com/news/after-years-bookstore-s-story-nears-the-end/article_be05eb4e-ec68-5ef1-96ec-a47148e45502.html accessed on 2 April 2020….