Gardening for a Drought: North Carolina Native Plants to the Rescue

…—pinkish-purple composite flowers Large-flower American-aster (Symphyotrichum grandiflorum)—light to reddish-purple composite flowers with yellow to reddish yellow disk Hairy-stem Spiderwort (Tradescantia hirsuticaulis)—bluish-purple flowers Adam’s Needle (Yucca filamentosa)—margins of the clumped, evergreen,…

Flora Apps

best sites for botanical exploration throughout their region. For reference, the apps include a glossary (just click a technical term and its definition pops up!) and a bibliography. The apps…

Ferdinand Blanchard

…and a daughter, “Glee,” named to express the joy of parents at her coming worthily survive him. —————————————————————————————————————————————————— BLANCHARD FAMILY HISTORY A photocopy of this information was kindly provided by…

Clyde Ritchie Bell

…in 1953; the title of his doctoral thesis was “The Sanicula crassicaulis complex (Umbelliferae): A study of variation and polyploidy.” From there, he went on to his first professional position…

Plant Conservation

…Program to increase the diversity of common species available for ecological restoration. These materials will not only benefit our own natural areas, but those of our partners throughout the region….

Q & A with President Greg Fitch

…invasives have done to our landscape – but the Garden pushed it further for me. NCBG made the case that the plants that are found locally are best adapted to…