Dear Friends of the Herbarium,

…the Southern and Mid-Atlantic States.The Flora of Virginiahas won several awards, including the Thomas Jefferson Award for Conservation. Through these and other major accomplishments, the Herbarium and allied researchers are…

Alton McCaleb Harvill, Jr.

…Indian, and was assigned as a service-unlimited warrant officer’s assistant. He also served as a medical lab technician and was posted mostly in Alaska where he began to amass a…

NCBGF Officers and Directors

…He has also worked as UNC’s Associate General Counsel for Business Affairs and Real Estate. William Lanier Hunt, who was instrumental in founding the Botanical Garden Foundation, first introduced him…

William Frederick Hinton

…A. thesis, Botany Department, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. SOURCES: 1. Data Portal. 2021. http//:sernecportal.org/index.php. Accessed on September 13. 2. Personal communication, Niki Wallace, University of North Carolina…

Philip French-Carson Greear

…Greear Holtzclaw; 11 grandchildren, Virginia Carstarphen, John T. Carstarphen, Ben Greear, Jake Philip Greear, Cary Greear Ritzler, Dixie Dillon Lane, Jay Leroux Dillon, Corey Isaac Oren, Elise Renee Oren, Troy…

Frances Ernestine Silliman

…oaks among the white oak group. M.A. thesis, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. SOURCES: 1. North Carolina Dept. of Health. North Carolina Deaths, 1976-1977. 2. http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=SI&GSfn=f&GSpartial=1&GSbyrel=all&GSdyrel=all&GSst=25&GScntry=4&GSob=n&GSsr=81&GRid=19754189&df=all& 3. R.L….

James Rex Baird

…of the Virginia Academy of Sciences. He was an advisor to the Flora of Virginia Project which culminated with the 2012 publication of Flora of Virginia by Alan S. Weakley,…

Velma Dare Matthews

…as well in local community planning and improvement activities. Coker’s campus was Dr. Matthew’s own personal garden, and we at Coker loved her for the beauty she created and shared…

Carroll Emory Wood, Jr.

enjoyed field observation and botanical puzzles, particularly those involving his specialties, taxonomy, plant diversity, and species biology. He as erudite, scholarly, modest, approachable, and an enthusiastic, skilled, and admired teacher……