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…

Lillian E. Arnold

…724-740. 3. www.flmnh.ufl.edu/natsci/herbarium/flashist.htm accessed on 25 October, 2006. 4. Murrill, William A. 1940. Additions to the Florida fungi II. Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club 67(1): 57-66. 5. Fourteenth Census…

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…

Arthur Oliver Tucker, III

…was an accomplished artist, as evidenced by his gardening, cooking, concrete sculptures, painting, botanical illustrations, and stencil work. He was a voracious reader and had amassed a library full of…

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…

Charles Fuller Baker

…of tuberculosis had neither money nor friends to care for him. Baker took the money he had put aside for the trip and sent the lad to the mountains. For…