Spring Native Plant Sale on May 7

By Angelica Edwards, NCBG Communications Intern The annual Spring Native Plant Sale will return to the North Carolina Botanical Garden on Saturday, May 7 from 10:30 a.m.- 4 p.m. Visitors…

Plant Sales are Back!

The garden may be closed but you can still buy great native plants from our nursery and, in doing so, help support our organization! How to Purchase Plants from NCBG…

The Paper Garden

by Angelica Edwards, NCBG Communications Intern Cynthia Woodsong volunteers at the North Carolina Botanical Garden – but not by weeding, propagating or clearing trails. Instead, she creates paper flowers and…

John Nathaniel Couch

medicine, but almost immediately changed to botany, under the influence of William Chambers Coker, then Chair of the Botany Department. While still an undergraduate, he had a brief tour of…

Lytt Irvine Gardner, Sr.

…Upstate Medical University Health Sciences Library which curates Dr. Gardner’s papers, Lytt Gardner earned “his M.D. in 1943 from Harvard Medical School, and completed his internship and residency in pediatrics…

Alpheus Wesley Blizzard

…the Botanical Society of America, American Public Health Association, American Society of Tropical Medicine, National Malaria Commission, Sigma Xi, and Beta Lambda Sigma. He is a member of the Delta…

NCBGF Officers and Directors

…Sociology, Duke University Carol spent decades in the education field, first working as a reading teacher for Granville County Schools, eventually becoming associate dean of the UNC School of Medicine,

Tree Cores Come to the Herbarium

…images of each core and its label for the online catalog of herbarium specimens, sernecportal.org. These tree cores have joined our existing collection of specimens from the Gulf Islands National…

Happy Birthday, Psilocybe!

…cubensis. The genus name is derived from the Greek and means “bare head,” while the specific epithet means “coming from Cuba” and refers to the type locality where Franklin Sumner…