Jenny Elder Fitch Memorial Lectures

and international podcast, based on the belief that gardens and gardeners are powerful agents and spaces for potentially positive change in our world, helping to address challenges as wide ranging…

Robert Rolland Brinker, O. F. M.

…(MWI: vascular plants), United States National Herbarium (US: lichens), and United States National Fungus Collections (BPI: fungi).2 “The Reverend Robert R. Brinker, O.F.M. [Order of Friars Minor], professor of biological…

Edward Avery McIlhenny

…Henn. (now classified as Bambusiomyces shiraianus (Henn.) K. Vánky), a pathogen of bamboo, from his family estate on Avery Island, Louisiana. While McIlhenny is remembered today the leader of the…

William Chambers Coker

…million bryophyte and lichen specimens. Moss specimen labels from this collaborative effort funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF ADBC 1115116) can be searched and viewed at bryophyteportal.org In 2012…

Walter Lane Barksdale

…vascular plants), Duke University (DUKE; vascular plants & bryophytes), Great Smoky Mountains National Park (GSMNP; vascular plants), Harvard University Herbaria (AMES, GH; vascular plants), Louisiana State University (LSU; vascular plants),…

Stanley Adair Cain

…of Texas (BRIT:SMU, BRIT:VDB), Brigham Young University (BRY), Brown University (BRU), Butler University (BUT), Clemson University (CLEMS), Field Museum (F), Great Smoky Mountains National Park (GSMNP), Harvard University (GH), Highlands…

John Robert Raper

…most frequent collecting locations included Chapel Hill and the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, and orchids seem to have been his particular interest. Although John Raper was a mycologist, we…

Tree Cores Come to the Herbarium

…collected from the Gulf Islands National Seashore in Gulf Breeze, Florida. As we have never had tree cores in our collection, I asked for more details – what species of…