Ken E. Rogers

…Mississippi Herbarium (USMS) in 1968. “Dr. Rogers had a keen eye for plants and was a prolific collector. He helped convince the administration of the importance of the Ragland Hills…

Wade Thomas Batson, Jr.

…of South Carolina] faculty member, and department head, member of the SC Hall of Science and Technology, and beloved biology professor and mentor to hundreds of practicing scientists and teachers….

Mary Gwendolyn Burton Caldwell

…1964. He died in 1977.1 Together they had two children, Harmon W. Caldwell, Jr. and Edea M. Caldwell. “She never let her subscriptions to scientific journals lapse…she filled her garden…

Madeline Palmer Burbanck

…In Memoriam: Madeline Palmer Burbanck. http://www.mbl.edu/obituaries/madeline-palmer-burbanck/ accessed on 5 April 2017. 2. Ancestry.com. U.S., Social Security Applications and Claims Index, 1936-2007 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2015….

Further Afield: Strolling Around Purgatory

…had encountered (and were puzzled by!) Horse-sugar had been at Hemlock Bluffs Nature Preserve in February 2023. Distribution of Horse-sugar (Symplocos tinctoria) in North Carolina. Courtesy of North Carolina Biodiversity…

Henrietta “Henny” Laing Chambers

…moved to Corvallis. Needless to say, a cross- country automobile trip with an infant and pulling a U-Haul trailer had both good and bad moments. The next-to-last day of the…

Rassie Everton Wicker

…collected in his native Moore County, North Carolina, but there are a few from Hoke and Lee Counties as well. In addition to NCU other herbaria which curate specimens collected…

Land Acknowledgement

…action to advocate for and support the agendas of Native communities. The Garden and Foundation aspire to understand and share a complete history of the land we steward. Indigenous Land…

Douglas Dwight Sharp

…collected for his Master’s thesis, “The phytosociology of the weed communities of Scotland County, North Carolina” which he completed in 1974 with advisor Dr. Helmut Leith in the University of…