Charles Clinton Lindley, Jr.

…Inc., 2012. http://woodlin.net/merged%20pedigree/3533.htm?fbclid=IwAR2plHtxLudWw3LCpYAGy3hn7nJv_h-kTXIKaLwQiN5zSdJXydyDXWD0Af8 accessed on 14 September 2020. Yackety yack, 1954. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. (College yearbook; page 86.)   Many thanks to Terri Buckner and to…

Ellsworth Bethel

…“Up to 1907 I had the invaluable assistance of Mr. Bethel, of Denver, and able and tireless collector, thoroughly acquainted with all parts of Colorado.” Of the 94 species of…

Dr. John Loomis Blodgett

…from the Bahamas and Cuba. “Wrecking” was their main business… During Blodgett’s remaining years in Key West, he became interested in collecting marine algae. He was undoubtedly influenced by a…

New Lichens in The Old North State

…which are new records for Brunswick County. For perspective, scouring Lichen Portal for records from Bald Head Island (also known as Smith Island) yielded about 120 species overall. Most of…

Carol Enarson, CCCG, Master Gardener

by Abby Zaleski, Communications Student Carol Enarson has been a volunteer at the Carolina Campus Community Garden (CCCG) for the last five years. A local community member, Carol heard about…

Orchids: Masters of Deception

…the orchid’s seeds. Here’s the Liparis liliifolia, twayblade, that started me thinking about orchids on 12 May 2020. Aware of these astonishing, albeit minimal, factoids about orchids, I have always…

John Adolph Shafer

…in the Lesser Antilles; in 1909-10 in eastern Cuba; in 1911-12 in western, central and eastern Cuba; late in 1912 he again went to western Cuba; in January, February, and…

Chesley Calhoun Bellamy

…Oxford, North Carolina, then graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1909 with a Bachelor of Arts.3 He earned Bachelor of Laws in 1911, also from…

NCBGF Committees

Working Committees Like many non-profits, much of the board work happens at the committee level. Learn more about how the Foundation operates by reading its committee structure below. Executive Committee…

Miriam Kresses Slifkin

(May 24, 1925 – August 28, 2020) The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Herbarium (NCU) curates five vascular plant specimens collected by Miriam Kresses Slifkin; as cataloging of…