The BGF Gets a New Name

…want – it’s the same organization, with the same bylaws, governance structure, and mission. It just got a little bit better. Greg Fitch President, North Carolina Botanical Garden Foundation, Inc….

Flora Help

…is similar in most browsers, but the buttons look a little different. The table of contents at the beginning of the flora contains links to families that you can click….

Carnivorous Conservation

…in a prison of spiky hairs. It’s a grisly end for the insect. Over the next few days, digestive enzymes will turn it into an absorbable goo. But for the…

Philip Jerome Crutchfield

…standing beside Forest Lake (Clark’s Pond, really) trying to identify some distant ducks. A man walked up, binoculars in hand, and started to do the same. We talked a little,…

Thomas Fanning Wood

…“learned very little, [and] didn’t gain a high opinion” of the discipline of botany. Although Wood’s introduction to botany was not very favorable, he later devoted much of his spare…

John Nathaniel Couch

…the University Archives.   A Bibliography of the Publications of John Nathaniel Couch Compiled by Joy Mermin, William R. Burk, Frank Quinn and Drew Posny 1920 (with W. C. Coker)….

Maeburn Bruce Huneycutt

…Lucile McCook, the current Curator of MISS. Researchers and visitors to MISS remember Sir Henry, Huneycutt’s nippy Chihuahua. “Huneycutt absolutely loved that little dog, just like he loved the Pullen…

Eugène Poilane

…Paris (P, PC), and the United States National Herbarium (US).1 ##### “Khe Sanh village existed as a result of the presence of French coffee planters. It began with Eugène Poilane,…