Ernest Gibbes Patton

…and retired from that institution in 1987.1 Patton’s thesis advisor at UCN-Chapel Hill was J. E. Adams, and the title of his Master’s Thesis was “Influence of flax root byproducts…

Ken E. Rogers

…Griffin III (1974) Notes on Mississippi bryophytes I. Castanea 39(3): 239-262. Rogers, Ken E. and Frank D. Bowers (1973) Notes on Tennessee plants III. Castanea 38(4): 335-339. Rogers, Ken E….

Edward Avery McIlhenny

…yet, the Pileated Woodpecker has survived in numbers, extended its range, and is in no danger of exterminations, while the Ivory-bill has gradually disappeared, until now it is practically exterminated….

Richard Joel Reader

…Science degree from the University of Manitoba, Canada. In 1973 he completed his Ph.D. at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in the Curriculum in Ecology. The title…

Land Acknowledgement

…that is currently in the research and development stages. This full document will be available on our website when it is complete. If you have ancestral knowledge about the history…

Enchantress along the Eno

…when it is in bloom, and we must have chosen its peak bloom day by chance. It is not a rare plant in the Piedmont of North Carolina, but all…

Charles Henry Hitchcock

…Dartmouth College as a gift in 2002. It seems likely that Hitchcock and Barrows botanized together during family visits. Hitchcock seems to have been interested in a wide variety of…

Mary Eugenia Wharton

…importance of field studies in botany; she searched for plants throughout Kentucky, gathering data that she would later use in her books. In 1942, she discovered an unnamed species of…