Rachel Milner Fell Treakle

…University to McCormick 27 October 2020. Illinois State Marriage Records. Online index. Illinois State Public Record Offices. . Ancestry.com. Illinois, Marriage Index, 1860-1920 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations,…

Jumping the Gap with Northern Wireweed

…found it growing in Haywood County, NC.4 Botanists hope to document a natural population in Tennessee. Keep those field guides handy, pay close attention to state lines, and you too…

Francis Stuart Chapman

…the death certificate and still can’t believe that it cost only 50¢! This was my Uncle Stuart: correct birth date, never married, Social Security #19-12-3990. His application is unavailable online,…

Elizabeth Kathleen Goldie-Smith

…Goldie-Smith, who usually signed her labels as “E.K.G.S.” Our fungal collection is being cataloged into the searchable on-line database, www.mycoportal.org As we continue to catalog our fungi it is probable…

March Madness: Botanical Sports Mascots

…Zealand flags: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_New_Zealand Delta State University: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delta_State_University Scottsdale Community College: https://www.scottsdalecc.edu/students/student-experience-leadership/mascot Minor League Baseball team names: https://www.milb.com/about/teams Hillsboro Hops: https://www.milb.com/hillsboro/fans/information Modesto Nuts: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modesto_Nuts Indiana State University: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indiana_State_Sycamores ; https://www.indstate.edu/university-marketing/brand-toolbox/logos University…

Walking with Walter and William

…of Asters, and thanks to Bruce Sorrie’s excellent book, A Field Guide to the Wildflowers of the Sandhills Region (available in the NCBG Garden Shop!), we were able to identify…

Stuck at Home, not Stuck Inside

…in planning or planting a pollinator garden, here is a handy guide. We also have guides for native trees and shrubs and wildflowers, ferns, and grasses. And you can send…

Steven Worth Leonard

…Plant of the Week: Big-leaf witch-hazel (Hamamelis ovalis). https://www.fs.fed.us/wildflowers/plant-of-the-week/hamamelis_ovalis.shtml accessed on 20 February 2021. Obituary: Steven Worth Leonard. The Lexington Dispatch, Lexington, North Carolina. Posted online 18 August, 2022. https://www.the-dispatch.com/obituaries/plex0281187…

Lawson Edwin Yocum

…Ancestry.com. 1900 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2004. Original data: United States of America, Bureau of the Census. Twelfth Census of the United…